On 12/14/2013 10:42 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: > The other big, widely-used GUI toolkit is PyQt. It runs on > both Python2 and Python3. There is another version of it > called PySide which is API compatible with PyQt but has > different licensing terms. PyQt comes with a very good > drag-and-drop form designer.
Just to be clear, PyQt does not provide the drag and drop form designer. That comes from QtDesigner or QtCreator, which is part of Qt itself and you can use it to design GUIs for use in any language that Qt has bindings for, not just Python. PyQt probably does come with a code generator to convert the xml GUI definitions into Python, but these days such use is discouraged in favor of using Qt itself to load the XML file at runtime and build the objects on the fly for you. It's way more flexible and there's no code generation needed. (Apple has done this for years with Cocoa with their nib files in the bundle.) > I have played a little with both wxPython an PyQt and found > learning to use them from the web difficult because of their > size and complexity. But both of them have pretty good books > about them available: Yes there are concepts you'll have to wrap your brain around such as how to do proper widget layout. Things aren't placed in a fixed way usually. They are allowed to grow and shrink with the window size. And you will have to grasp how events work. Of all the APIs I've used, I think GTK in Python is the cleanest (PyGTK or PyObject). But if I was targeting Windows or Mac I'd stick with PySides/PyQt. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
