What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter,wxPython,QT,GTK?

[Tom]

1) Portable to Windows, Unix-like platforms, and the Macintosh;
2) Powerful, GUI is very beautiful ;
3) Efficiency of development is high;

What's the best, Tkinter, wxPython, QT, GTK or other?

Thanks!

[Jarek Zgoda]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

Tom napisa³(a):
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> 1) Portable to Windows, Unix-like platforms, and the Macintosh;
> 2) Powerful, GUI is very beautiful ;
> 3) Efficiency of development is high;
>
> What's the best, Tkinter, wxPython, QT, GTK or other?[/color]

It depends on your personal taste.

--
Jarek Zgoda
http://jpa.berlios.de/ | http://www.zgodowie.org/

[Wilk]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

Tom <myata99@tom.co m> writes:
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> 1) Portable to Windows, Unix-like platforms, and the Macintosh;
> 2) Powerful, GUI is very beautiful ;
> 3) Efficiency of development is high;
>
> What's the best, Tkinter, wxPython, QT, GTK or other?[/color]

html !

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William
http://wikipython.flibuste.net : wiki francophone sur python

[Maurice LING]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

Tom wrote:[color=blue]
> 1) Portable to Windows, Unix-like platforms, and the Macintosh;
> 2) Powerful, GUI is very beautiful ;
> 3) Efficiency of development is high;
>
> What's the best, Tkinter, wxPython, QT, GTK or other?
>
> Thanks!
>[/color]

That's almost like asking which way of cooking chicken is the best?
steam, fried, stew, roast?

I may offend heaps of people by saying this.... but Tkinter is included
in the standard package, so it should be given a look, then decide what
is lacking...

Maurice

[Andrew Dalke]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

Maurice LING wrote:[color=blue]
> That's almost like asking which way of cooking chicken is the best?
> steam, fried, stew, roast?[/color]

BBQ'ed of course.

I believe that fits your point. :)

Andrew
dalke@dalkescie ntific.com

[Do Re Mi chel La Si Do]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

+1


Michel Claveau

[Dave Cook]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

On 2005-03-27, Tom <myata99@tom.co m> wrote:
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> 1) Portable to Windows, Unix-like platforms, and the Macintosh;
> 2) Powerful, GUI is very beautiful ;
> 3) Efficiency of development is high;
>
> What's the best, Tkinter, wxPython, QT, GTK or other?[/color]

Don't forget Swing and SWT via Jython. Of course that brings with it all
the joys and sorrows of Java.

GTK on the Mac (OS X) requires installing and running an X server (an X
server is included on Apple's OS X install discs, but not installed by
default; it can also be downloaded for free from Apple). This may be enough
of an annoyance to turn some users off. I've had success with using GTK on
win32, and it's very standard on Linux systems.

I'm not sure what the status of QT on OS X is.

Tkinter still seems viable for things that don't require a lot of complex
controls. Also, it has a very powerful canvas widget. However, it won't
look very good on unix systems (no anti-aliasing, for one thing).

If you don't need a lot of complex controls, you might consider the embedded
webserver + browser route using CherryPy or Twisted.web + Nevow.

wxPython seems to have the best cross-platform support among CPython
toolkits, but it never seemed very Pythonic to me. There's a higher-level
package called wax that aims to remedy that.

Dave Cook

[Scott Robinson]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:06:14 GMT, Dave Cook <davecook@nowhe re.net>
wrote:
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>On 2005-03-27, Tom <myata99@tom.co m> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> 1) Portable to Windows, Unix-like platforms, and the Macintosh;
>> 2) Powerful, GUI is very beautiful ;
>> 3) Efficiency of development is high;
>>
>> What's the best, Tkinter, wxPython, QT, GTK or other?[/color]
>
>Don't forget Swing and SWT via Jython. Of course that brings with it all
>the joys and sorrows of Java.
>
>GTK on the Mac (OS X) requires installing and running an X server (an X
>server is included on Apple's OS X install discs, but not installed by
>default; it can also be downloaded for free from Apple). This may be enough
>of an annoyance to turn some users off. I've had success with using GTK on
>win32, and it's very standard on Linux systems.
>
>I'm not sure what the status of QT on OS X is.
>
>Tkinter still seems viable for things that don't require a lot of complex
>controls. Also, it has a very powerful canvas widget. However, it won't
>look very good on unix systems (no anti-aliasing, for one thing).
>
>If you don't need a lot of complex controls, you might consider the embedded
>webserver + browser route using CherryPy or Twisted.web + Nevow.
>
>wxPython seems to have the best cross-platform support among CPython
>toolkits, but it never seemed very Pythonic to me. There's a higher-level
>package called wax that aims to remedy that.
>
>Dave Cook[/color]
PythonCard builds on wxPython (a subset, I believe) and includes a
graphic GUI builder. The way it handles the wxPython objects seems
pretty pythonic to me, but I can't say I build pretty interface with
it. PythonCard seems to like to stick to basics, but also includes a
certain ability to get to the rest of wxPython (file/save/message
dialogs are pretty easy to include).

Note that my only other experience in building GUIs was with visual
basic, which seems to have spoiled me. I tried wxPython and Tinker,
but could only really get PythonCard to work.

Scott Robinson

[stewart.midwinter@gmail.com]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

Tom, there's a reason that Tkinter is included with Python - it's
probably the most straitforward of the 4 you mentioned. It's dead easy
to get running on Win32 and Linux systems (haven't tried on Mac OS, but
I hear reports of it being used).

I found GTK to be damn near impossible to install on Windows, after
numerous attempts. Maybe if you're building shrink-wrap systems you
wouldn't have the issue - just provide an executable and a .dll.

wxPython, some people say, feels like C++. That may be a pro or a
con.

As for QT, great on Linux, difficult or expensive to license on
Windows. There'll be an open-source version, but that's a year off by
the time PyQt 4 is ready.

If you haven't worked with any GUI toolkits before, why not start with
Tkinter - concepts like callbacks, threads and events, key to making
GUI apps work, are transferable between toolkits.

cheers
S

[Cameron Laird]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

In article <slrnd4flom.5bv .davecook@local host.localdomai n>,
Dave Cook <davecook@nowhe re.net> wrote:

[Fuzzyman]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

Undoubtably Wax :-)
Easier to learn than TKinter, with none of the limitations (it's built
on top of wxPython).

See http://zephyfalcon.org
I've just started using it and I'm really impressed.

Best Regards,

Fuzzy

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python

[Kent Johnson]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

Fuzzyman wrote:[color=blue]
> Undoubtably Wax :-)
> Easier to learn than TKinter, with none of the limitations (it's built
> on top of wxPython).
>
> See http://zephyfalcon.org[/color]

http://zephyrfalcon.org/labs/wax.html works better.

Kent

[Fuzzyman]

Re: What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter, wxPython,QT,GTK ?

True enough :-)

Thanks
Fuzzy

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python