I would recommend PyQt. I've done a lot of programming with it (http://eric-ide.python-projects.org) and am amazed about the platform neutrality it offers.
Regards, Detlev jyoun...@kc.rr.com wrote: > 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 -- Detlev Offenbach det...@die-offenbachs.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
