Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-13 Thread Eric Brunel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had very bad experience with Tkinter when using input servers(for CJK languages like scim, xcin...) on Linux (doesn't work), so you might consider this. Eh? I use (not frequently, I admit...) kinput2 with canna and wnn servers with Tkinter on Linux and it works quite

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I had very bad experience with Tkinter when using input servers(for CJK languages like scim, xcin...) on Linux (doesn't work), so you might consider this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> It also has a widget for creating Windows "wizards" for walking >> through a set of options. > Besides the fact that wizards isn't really that great (read Cooper), if your > toolkit doesn't let you create a dialogue with a couple o

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-11 Thread Peter Hansen
Jarek Zgoda wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: I don't know about wxPython, but PyQt includes it's own threading facility, plus hooks to talk to databases. That would of course be a great argument if Python didn't already have a threading facility, and a standard API for talking to databases with implemen

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-11 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Fredrik Lundh wrote: I don't know about wxPython, but PyQt includes it's own threading facility, plus hooks to talk to databases. That would of course be a great argument if Python didn't already have a threading facility, and a standard API for talking to databases with implementations for all maj

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-11 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Mike Meyer wrote: > I don't know about wxPython, but PyQt includes it's own threading > facility, plus hooks to talk to databases. That would of course be a great argument if Python didn't already have a threading facility, and a standard API for talking to databases with implementations for all

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never tried doing animation in TkInter. Qt provides timer devices > that you can use to drive animations. I suspect that doing the same in > TkInter would be noticably more difficult. Tkinter supports some kind of event that runs n millisecond (n is a

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
"Erik Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for some input on GUI libraries. Since you said others, I'll recommend PyQt. Major downside with it is that it costs money on Windows. > o What features does wxPython offer that Tkinter cannot (and vice > versa)? I don't know abo

GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-10 Thread Erik Johnson
I am looking for some input on GUI libraries. I want to build a Python-driven GUI, but don't really understand the playing field very well. I have generally heard good things about wxPython. I happen to already own John Grayson's book about Tkinter programming, so that is rather handy if I dec