Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > I've already sent this to the Komodo mailing list (which seemed to me > the more appropriate place) but unfortunately I got no response. > > I'd like to build a Python GUI app. Neither Tkinter nor Wxpython nor > PyQT are actually what I want (because the lack of GUI builders and > they don't really look good on Windows and Linux).
You apparently didn't look very hard. On the wxPython end of things (which I have experience with), there is wxGlade, XRCed, Boa Constructor, Dabo, etc. I don't know about Tkinter (I don't use it), but I know that at least Qt has a very nice GUI designer and builder (from Trolltech if you are willing to pay for it), and if I remember correctly, Eric4 offers some tools to make PyQt editing nice and friendly. I'm sure there are others. As for wxPython applications not looking good on all platforms; I hate to break it to you, but the majority of the controls are *native* on whatever platform you happen to be using (except for Qt-based frontends in *nix, wxPython uses a Gtk binding in *nix). Take a browse through a few of the applications listed in the wiki: http://wiki.wxpython.org/wxPythonPit_Apps , or even Andrea Gavana's custom widgets http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/eng/freeware.html . > Komodo itself is an excellent example of a - at least Python driven - > application that looks superb and has superior functionality so it > seems natural to use the Komodo approach for me. I could have sworn that Komodo was written in PyQt. Unless my memory is failing me (doubtful, as they at least used to offer some PyQt development tools), I would imagine they merely embedded the mozilla bits and pieces with some C extensions. In any case, you really don't want to be developing an application using XPI. According to everyone I've ever talked to about XPI, while getting the basic stuff working isn't bad, doing anything worth mentioning is about as big a pain in the butt than just writing everything in 8088 assembly. You mileage may vary of course. > * Is there a simple How-To how to build a very simple (Python) app > with the Mozilla framework? Kind of "Hello world"...? Maybe. Search terms you should use are 'embed XPI python', which give me about 189k results in google, some of which seem applicable on the first page (which also leads me to believe that my statements regarding Komodo embedding mozilla technology may be right, though maybe they wrote Komodo in C and Qt). > * Is is reasonable to think that building a GUI with Mozilla is easier > than using Python frameworks because Mozilla does most of the GUI > work? Doubtful. Building a GUI app with XRCed and wxPython is pretty easy if you understand Python and object-oriented programming. There are some annoying vagaries with events, but if you ask your questions on the wxpython-users mailing list (over at wxpython.org), one of at least a half-dozen people will likely answer your question. - Josiah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
