On 28 Dec 2005 05:51:50 -0800, "Luis M. González" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This question comes up in this mailing list every two or three days... >I suggest taking some time to read previous threads (use Google Groups >for en easier experience) and you'll find thousands of opinions and >suggestions. ...SNIP... Yes, and in my opinion, that's exactly the problem. There are too many opinions and suggestions and too few organized evaluations. And, most of the attempts to organize the information seem to be out of date for the partial list of GUIs that they do try to evaluate. I've been chewing through my own evaluation for the past 2 or 3 weeks, and have been downloading and trying things on my own. I think reading the suggestions from past threads, then digging around and reading descriptions of the ones that seem interesting, and then actually trying to go through the tutorials (if they exist) is the only way to decide. I'm finding that you can tell quite a lot by just looking for documentation and tutorials, and seeing how up-to-date the websites are. I've been keeping some notes as I plow through all this, and I've toyed with the idea of writing up something that might be useful to others, but that would be a BIG task, and I'm wimping out and just being selfish and mostly only looking toward my own self interest. So, I guess I'm just spouting another opinion and not much organized information, and contributing to the problem rather than the solution! :^) Anyway, having said all that, I find myself settling on using wxGlade, which builds wxPython apps and GUIs. wxGlade: http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/ wxPython: http://wxpython.org/ There are two huge things that have influenced me to use this: 1) Just by messing around with the wxGlade tutorials and experimenting, I have managed to throw together a fairly sophisticated GUI interface that uses a wxPython "NoteBook" in its main window (the notebook gives you a tabbed interface), a working menu, a multi-segment status bar, and separate modal and non-modal dialogs. I really like the notebook interface, and this became my "standard" when looking at other GUI generator programs. This thing just went together easily, which is more than I can say about trying to use some of the other GUI generators. 2) The availability of the new wxPython reference docs on the wxPython site. These really, really help when messing around trying to learn how to do new things. Some comments on wxGlade: I've found that the wxGlade user interface crashes fairly easily in some spots, but if you save often, you can work around that. It's worth it just to get access to its sophisticated capabilities. The tutorials are not fully up to date, but at least they exist, and I believe they will soon be updated. The latest wxGlade version has added automatic event handling setup and "stub" function generation, which makes it much easier, in my mind, to connect the GUI to your own code -- unfortunately one of the tutorials (ironically, the one marked "new") still shows the old manual way of making event handlers, and the web site sort of implies that wxGlade won't ever do that, but it does. Figuring out how to use it is easy, once you notice where to type in the name of your handler in the wxGlade user interface (I stumbled across this myself, and only later discovered the little comment on the website that says "The current version is 0.4: it adds wxWidgets 2.6 suppport and code generation of event handler stubs for Python and C++ output"). Up until I discovered wxGlade, I had pretty much resigned myself to keep using TkInter and writing the code myself. This wxGlade thing is much easier. Oh, one more thing -- the wxGlade website is a good place to look for finding other GUI builders for wxPython/wxWidgets. They provide a nice list at the bottom of the box on the right-hand side of the front webpage. Bill. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
