On 04/26/2015 11:07 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
Op Sunday 26 Apr 2015 19:12 CEST schreef Gary Herron:
On 04/26/2015 09:32 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
Op Sunday 26 Apr 2015 17:09 CEST schreef Steven D'Aprano:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 11:02 pm, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
I want to use a GUI for Python. When searching I found (beside
some others) Tkinter and wxPython. From what I found it looks
like Tkinter is slightly better. What would be the pros/cons of
these two? Would there be a compelling reason to use another GUI?
Tkinter is easier to use, as it is standard with Python. So long
as you have Tk/Tcl installed on your computer, Tkinter should work
fine.
However, Tkinter probably looks a bit more old fashioned.
wxPython probably looks a bit more modern and may be a bit more
powerful, but it will require a large extra library. It's also a
lot harder to learn to use wxPython unless you are comfortable
with C++ programming.
Well, I did my share of C++ programming. ;-)
Have you seen this?
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming
Dabo looks interesting, but also a little bit dead. Well, maybe I
just should evaluate Tkinter and wxPython both. Now wxPython looks
more interesting. But it is easier to make a reasonable decision
when I have a little more information. :-D
For the moment I limit it to Tkinter and wxPython.
I wouldn't recommend limiting yourself like that. I've used both
successively (years ago), then pyGTK for a batch of projects,
followed by pyglet for some years and many projects, and most
recently PyQt. They are all worthy GUI programming libraries, and
each of them is cross platform (as I required to develop on Linux,
but deploy occasionally on Windows).
I did say for the moment. ;-)
But just curious: what is the reason you use five different kinds of
GUI? It seems like it makes think difficult for you. I mean the
question as enlightenment for myself.
Yikes, Stated like that it does sound excessive but in reality it's
spread over about 20 years of Python and graphics/GUI programming.
Experimenting with a new GUI every 5 years or so just keeps the
interest levels up.
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