In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenneth McDonald wrote: > 4) Ease of installation/use on OS X?
There are two questions which may restrict your choice rather a lot: #1 Should the UI look the same on each platform or should it look the same as all other apps on the platform? #2 Are you trying to make a simple installation package which includes everything needed? With OS X compatibility you tend to come across with the fact that many "OS X compatible" things are actually X11 things. X11 certainly looks different from Aqua (the native interface). Also, X11 is not always installed, and some unixish things require using Fink to install them. Not something Joe A. User usually has on his Mac. GTK is an example of this. There is an Aqua version of GTK, but it seems to be rather outdated. The newer versions run on X11 but installing them may be just laborious or then plain pain depending on your luck. And you still need the X11 installed. So, if you are looking for something that looks like Mac and works like Mac, do not touch anything with X11. OTOH, if you just need to get something working on your own OS X computer, then X11 is fine. --- I have tried using wxPython for Mac/Windows cross-platform GUIs. This far it seems to work fine, but I have not tried anything very fancy. Mac applications have the OS X looks, and Windows applications look Windowsish. Without having a single line of platform-dependent code. Making simple installation files (exe for Windows and dmg for OS X) seems to work, as well. So, the installation should be easy for the user. - Ville -- Ville Voipio, Dr.Tech., M.Sc. (EE) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
