On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:53 PM, <trzewic...@trzewiczek.info> <trzewic...@trzewiczek.info
> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I posted that question on a python-forum, but got answer, so I ask
here.
I'm working on an artistic project and I'm looking for the best
cross-platform GUI solution. The problem is that it's gonna be a
tool that
will have to be double-click installable/runnable and pre-
installation of
any libraries for end-users is very much like an evil. It really has
to be
double-click tool
My first thought was PyQt, because it's a real framework with a lot of
stuff inside (including Phonon) and I know some cross-platform media
software written in C++ QT (like VLC). But on the other hand I've
heard
that it's not that easy to make it "double-clicky" multi-platform.
Is that
true?
Another thing that matters for me is ease of integration with
libraries
like OpenCV.
I will be VERY thankful for any help. I'm SO tired googling the
problem
(it's like weeks now!!)
Cześć trzewiczek,
I'm not well qualified to answer your question but since no one else
has I'll make a stab at it. I'm interested because I'll have to solve
the same problem in some months time with a suite of wxPython-based
apps that rely on a lot of libraries.
When you say "cross platform" I assume you mean OS X, Linux and
Windows. All three of those require a different technique to create a
double-clickable app, so in a way you have three problems to solve,
not just one. For instance, py2exe is a popular solution for building
monolithic application blobs for Windows, while py2app does the same
for the Mac.
It might be true that PyQt isn't all that easy to cram into a "double-
clicky" application blob. But I don't know that e.g. wxPython will be
any easier. Bundling a Python GUI app is non-trivial. I think that's
exactly why you've been able to spend weeks googling -- there's no
easy, obvious, this-is-it, canonical solution. Different people use
different techniques.
So to get back to your original question, although I don't know if one
GUI toolkit is easier to bundle than another, I suspect that none of
them are easy. I would pick the GUI toolkit based on what suits your
technical & licensing needs best and worry about distribution later.
That's one man's opinion. I hope someone else with more practical
experience in the matter can offer you some advice.
Good luck
Philip
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