On 19/02/2013 23:19, Rex Macey wrote:
I'm new to Python and only a hobbyist programmer. A long time ago I used
Microsoft's Visual Basic which had a nice (graphical) facility for creating
GUIs which was part of the development environment. I'm wondering if there's a
utility for Python to build GUIs. I see that there is TKinter, which is a
scripting function to build GUIs. To be clear, I'm looking for a graphical
interface to build GUIs. Thanks.
Take a look at Qt (and PyQt) - this includes QtDesigner, a nice GUI
design/generation tool. Three caveats:
1. Read and Re-read the response from Chris Angelico - IME he knows what
he is talking about and I'm just in the process of learning first hand
what he is telling you (I'm writing an application in Python with PyQt).
2. Qt isn't 'free' (depending on what you are going to be doing with it)
- read the licensing rules.
3. QtDesigner isn't Visual Studio and creating a GUI in Qt/PyQt tends to
be a process of GUI design, GUI code generation and integration with
your 'business logic.' There's no round-trip-engineering, so if you
mess with your GUI code after generating it, it isn't easy to get it
back into QtDesigner.
Steve Simmons
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