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Python GUIs: Abandoning TkInter and welcoming wxPython?

Lyle Johnson Lyle.Johnson at p98.f112.n480.z2.fidonet.org
Fri Jul 2 03:57:22 EDT 1999 
From: Lyle Johnson <jlj at cfdrc.com>

FOX's grid widget (called FXTable) is under development and will probably be
usable soon (although I can't comment on how its features will compare with the
same widget in wxWindows). As Mike pointed out, one of the test programs for
the
C++ library demonstrates what's there so far. I didn't really intend to work up
an FXTable demo for FXPy until the FXTable was really usable.

I think any kind of rich text (i.e. RTF-compliant) or HTML widget is much
farther off for FOX.

"Mike C. Fletcher" wrote:

> None of the demonstrations I've seen are using a "grid" method.  There is
> one which looks similar, the "header" demo, but that is a set of "list"
> widgets standing next to each other and a sitting below a header widget.  To
> create a real grid, you would need to do some (likely C++) programming.  You
> would probably also want to make such thing allow for editing in-field, and
> have the capability of updating directly from an application table to the
> on-screen representation.  It should be possible to create such a thing in
> Python by dropping data into a matrix of entry fields in response to
> scrolling/moving etc., but a grid object generally wants a high-performance
> solution with all sorts of funky options.
>
> A "rich" text editor is evident in the Fox IDE, FXEditor, a separate project
> from the Core Fox libraries, though I have not yet downloaded that project
> to test it.  Something similar should likely become part of a base Fox
> distribution if it is to become a widely deployed Python GUI.
>
> Fox has a basic GUI editor under development (it is a separate project
> again), though my tests with it so far have been unsuccessful, as the
> application exits silently about every-other time I click on a widget.
>
> Neither tkinter nor Fox has any perceptible "slowness" on my system, so I
> cannot comment in that direction.
>
> I'm continuing my experiments, will continue to report as time permits.
>
> Enjoy,
> Mike
>
> Alexander V. Voinov <avv at quasar.ipa.nw.ru> wrote in message
> news:377BF583.6846FBF9 at quasar.ipa.nw.ru...
> ...
> > Did you look at the demos for the underlying toolkit? Some of them
> presents a
> > 'table' which is probably less rich than that of wxWindows, but it does
> exist.
> >
> > What it really lacks is a 'richtext'/html widget, sort of which is present
> and
> > actively developed in wxWindows. As I understand it's just about to become
> > available in wxPython.
> ...
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