Re: What GUI toolkit looks the best?

From: Max Slimmer (max_at_theslimmers.net)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:21:31 GMT

I have been using wxPython and it performs well ... You should also look
at Boa Constructor a GUI designer generates decent Python code,
integrated debugger is cool, shows local varraibles... for some uses I
find it better than winpython.

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Brian Kelley <bkelley@wi.mit.edu> writes:
>
>>Why forget Tkinter? I've seen Tkinter applications that look
>>incredibly fabulous.
>
>
> Got any url's for screen shots?
>
>
>>A lot depends on what you are trying to do. If
>>you are making a graphics-heavy application then Tkinter's canvas is
>>pretty sweet. I also think IDLE looks pretty good.
>
>
> There will be some graphical icons and stuff like that which people
> will click on, but no really heavy graphics or drawing tools in the
> sense of a photo editor or anything like that.
>
>
>>Glade isn't a GUI, it is a GUI builder that uses GTK. In my
>>experience, GTK doesn't look quite right on windows boxes, especially
>>the menus. Of course I have the same basic view of Qt and Swing so
>>know you know my biases.
>
>
> Oh ok, I understand a bit better now.
>
>
>>I tend to use Tkinter for canvas heavy applications and wxPython for
>>other stuff.
>
>
> Is wxPython Windows specific? I guess it is, but can I port the
> screen layouts to some comparable Linux toolkit or anything like that?
> The screen shots for it do look really nice.
>
>
>>Here is my humble opinions in a nutshell (missing a lot here):
>>wxPython has a grid control to die for and many, many classes, good
>>printer support and looks like a native GTK app on Linux and a native
>>app on windows and macintosh.
>
>
> Oh wow, yes I guess it's cross platform then. Hmm, what Micro$oft
> tool do I need to build and run it? Is Visual C++ enough? I guess
> I can get the client to pay for some stuff like that. Also, is there
> a Glade-like drag and drop gui editor for it?
>
>
>>Qt is better for developing - it has a better class structure and I
>>tend not to have to look up docs as often and can look really,
>>really nice.
>
>
> The KDE apps that I've seen look good but not really top notch. Maybe
> more attention could improve them. They're certainly good enough for
> practical use.
>
>
>>Tkinter has a killer canvas and great postscript output. GTK is
>>really quite fast.
>
>
> I think I don't care about heavy duty graphics or more than rudimentary
> printing.
>
>
>>but don't take my word for this, why don't you see what you like the best?
>>
>>http://www.wxpython.org/
>>http://www.gtk.org/
>>http://www.scriptics.com/
>>http://www.trolltech.com/
>
>
> I don't know what I can really tell from these without more experience
> with them. In particular, which is the most solid and reliable across
> a wide range of Windows versions (95, 98, ..., XP whatever)? That
> matters too.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paul

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