Just curious if anyone would be willing to share their thoughts about different Python GUI programming modules. I've been doing a bit of research and am trying to find something that:
1. Is portable. Would like to be able to send the module along with the main python file that would be able to run a GUI window. Would be sending this to multiple machines. Currently I'd like it to work on OS X machines, but it'd be nice if it worked on Windows machines, etc. Probably be using Python 2.5 or 2.6. 2. Can show an image (that is zoomable) as well as add GUI controls like text fields, popup menues, etc. as well as send information back to the program from the text fields, etc. For now, I'm really looking for something that can display EPS (postscript) and PDF images. In my research, here's some GUI modules/programs I've been looking at. I haven't gone real in-depth with these, but did just a little testing: 1. wxPython - This looks very good, although I'm not sure how to set up portability with this. Other machines that would run the Python code probably wouldn't have the Developer Tools or wxPython installed. I think I could use Py2App for OS X to create a Package App but I'm not real familiar with how that would all work. 2. Pyglet - This is a pretty cool program. I was able to display a window with an image… but I don't think it has GUI controls like text fields, drop down menues, etc. 3. ImageMagick - This one looks cool but I can't figure out how to install it correctly on OS X (Snow Leopard). Not sure if it would give me the GUI tools either. 4. PyGui - This one looks very interesting. Just found it last night so haven't looked at it too closely. Looks like it needs PyObjC on the machine for OS X. I'm assuming that comes pre-installed on Snow Leopard machines, but not sure about Leopard or Tiger machines. Anyone have more info about this? 5. NodeBox - This is an incredible application! Don't think I can use it's libraries for what I'm wanting to do, but what a cool program! I will definitely spend some time working with this! 6. TkInter - Does this module come standard on all machines that have Python? Haven't worked with this one much, but if I send Python code to other machines would TkInter work? Would love to hear anyones thoughts about GUI programming and what they use. Would also like to hear pros/cons with the different modules/apps. Thanks for looking at my questions. Jay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
