B
Back9
Hi,
Does anyone know of what is the most popular gui framework for python
application?
TIA
Does anyone know of what is the most popular gui framework for python
application?
TIA
J
J.O. Aho
Back9 said:
Don't think it's the most popular, but I think it may be the one which works
for quite a lot of different platforms, PyQt, works fine on my desktop as
cellphone.
T
Thomas Jollans
I'd guess at Tkinter - it's part of the standard library.
Another quite popular option is PyGtk. Other good ones include wxPython, PyQt,
and PySide.
P
Peter
Lots of choices - you could try Jython as well, then you have access
to all the Java GUI framework
Personally, I have used Tkinter, PMW (Widgets built on Tkinter) - all
of my GUI stuff to date is written using these.
I have tried WxPython - I found it quite difficult to learn, but this
was quite some years ago now and perhaps there are some easy books
that will help you ease into it.
I am currently experimenting with PyQt - I have Mark Summerfield's
book, "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" - very readable book.
Now that the Qt license is more friendly to the "hobbyist" I think I
will switch all of my GUI work over to PyQt.
There are so many these days (just look at the Python wiki page on
GUIs) that you can't really try them all - just not enough hours in
the day. I would suggest you have a quick browse of what's available
and then select one or two to focus on. Most are pretty well
"portable" between multiple platforms - but realistically I have never
used anything other than a Windoze platform cross-platform
compatibility may not be such a big deal.
I would strongly recommend reading the Python Wiki page on GUI
programming: http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming
Peter
M
meitham
I used to prefer using GTK mainly because it is available on most
platforms. I have realised the majority of the enterprises prefer to
use browsers even for local applications. So a combination of django/
html/css/jquery/ajax now gives me the best gui I could get. This
approach also forces me to separate logic from presentation, and the
gui will be truly platform independent which could run on any device
with a browser.
Meitham