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GUI-apps creation library

pedro alvarez dickerc6 at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 6 10:57:26 EST 2003 
Nicolay Vasiliev <n.vasiliev at apatit.com> wrote in message news:<b1t0re$1fnv$1 at bull.east.ru>...
> Hello there!
> 
> Which subject library people preffer? I know about wxPython, FXPy, PyQT. 
> Which is more functional/convenient/understandable?
> 

Depends on your intentions:

I faced the same dilema, so i downloaded and played with them for a
few days.

PyQt is the most feature rich one, and looks great, but if you want to
use it in ms windows, you have to purchase a Qt licsense.(although
there is now a project to port Qt for linux to windows using cygwin).
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/
So probably, PyQt is ideal choice for linux only.

WxPython is what i currently use, because i use ms windows.
It is very functional, looks good and free to use on all platforms,
and i highly
recommend it.

Tkinter is probably the most documented and mature toolkit, but once i
played with wxPython and PyQt, i realised it didnt look very nice.

others:
Well, i never used Fxpy nor pyFLTK, but i know that the c++ libraries
Fox and
Fltk were created for writing basic functionality, resource friendly
and fast applications. So they dont look polished, but are probably
the speediest.

Theoritical:
It would be nice having XUL for python, based on my experiences of
playing
with mozilla. (yes, at the moment i have lots of time to play, because
i am sadly underemployed)
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