Peter Decker schrieb:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Palmer schrieb:
As anyone knows, the state of Python GUI programming is a little
fractured at this time, with many toolkits, wrappers and meta-wrappers
dead and alive, with or without documentation.
I've come across two projects that have the appeal of striving for
simple, pythonic APIs: PyGUI and wax. The latter is a wrapper around
wxPython. It is lacking documentation but actually quite usable and
concise. The other, PyGUI, has an even nicer API and more docs but has
relatively few widgets implemented at this time. It also strives for
compatibility with several toolkits (two at this time), which I think
is the right idea.
I disagree with that. Meta-wrappers like this will always suffer from
problems, as they have difficulties providing a consistent api. For example
wx is said to be very windows-toolkit-centric in it's API. Yes I know that
it works under Linux with GTK, but it does not come as natural .
With all due respect, it seems like you are not terribly familiar with
wxPython. It uses the native UI toolkit for each platform wherever
possible: Aqua on OS X; MFC on Windows and Gtk on Linux. Applications
tend to look 'natural' on each platform, rather than uniform across
platforms, and I believe that this is what most people prefer.
You got me wrong. I didn't say it doesn't use the native toolkit under
various OSes, I'm well aware of that it does.
What I *did* say was that wx API is designed primarily with windows'
toolkit as base, and as a consequence the API tends to be less
functional for other toolkits, making it harder to work with it. As the
OP was after a "one API to rule them all" for GUIs, I pointed that out.
See for example this (arguably somewhat dated) post that illustrates my
point:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-March/313354.html
From my personal experience with Qt and Cocoa, I can say that both are
great, but their full power is unleashed only if used directly - talk
about Multi-threading in Qt4, or KeyValue-coding in Cocoa. Neither is
available in wx.
Diez
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