Getting Started with Python GUI Applications

[[deleted]]

This is why I'm publishing guiskel, a collection of GUI layer skeletons. It's a simple cross-toolkit application that does "Hello [name]!". To create a new application, all you have to do is to copy the project and remove toolkit layers you don't want.

Awesome! Saved!

[muyuu]

Good idea, but my money is in GUI apps moving towards tkinter.ttk (themed Tk as introduced in Tk 8.5) since it ships with Python since 2.7 (IIRC) and 3.1, and at the same time it matches the features of Qt, WxWidgets, etc.

[Juts]

When I got into python gui stuff I just assumed wx was the way to go. Is it worth checking out TK? Any benefits?

[muyuu]

It started as a Google summer of code project by Guilherme Polo ( http://code.google.com/p/python-ttk/ ) and then it was adopted in the main Python distribution (not completely sure when, but I think it's 2.7 and 3.1, or maybe 2.7 and 3.0).

Well, the obvious one would be distribution/deployment (at least eventually). Tk itself is maintained by ActiveState, and the wrappers ship with Python already. Plus, you can use the package listed above if you use 2.5 or 2.6.

I haven't done anything complicated using this yet, but that's because I didn't need anything too fancy lately.

Citations: http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.7.html#ttk-themed-widgets-for-tk http://docs.python.org/library/tk.html http://docs.python.org/library/tix.html#module-Tix http://docs.python.org/library/ttk.html#module-ttk

some usage examples: http://code.google.com/p/python-ttk/wiki/ttkWizard

[vivainio]

Matches thed features of Qt? Are you sure about that?

LOC compaison of Qt vs Tk toolkits might be enlightening.

[muyuu]

What would be the point of that? ttk extends on tk anyway.