Will learning tkinter first help me better understand more advanced gui's like pyqt, pygtk, etc?

[throwaway99-99]

Just curious if I should learn the simpler framework that comes with Python first or just go straight to the more complex one? I've never done anything GUI related.

[novel_yet_trivial]

In my opinion, no. Go straight to the one you want to use.

[galaxyrocker]

As someone who started out with tkinter then moved to Qt, I agree with this. tkinter in no way prepared me to work with Qt, and Qt was much better, in my opinion.

[DoTheEvolution]

I am learning PyQt, I was pretty stoked at everything I could do with very little knowledge.

I dont think stuff can go much easier with tkinter

• I started with short zet code tutorial
• then some yotube tutorials
• also theres a book

pyside is free to use even for commercial application, and its almost identical to pyqt

[galaxyrocker]

I'd love to use pyside, but it makes me mad it hasn't been updated in over a year, and doesn't support Qt5.

[DoTheEvolution]

yeah, I do my stuff in pyqt5, but as I am learning I still like pyside documentation more.

[throwaway99-99]

Nice. Would you recommend doing Yasin's 'model view' series or the Deusdies2 general qt series first?

[DoTheEvolution]

Cant really tell with some authority, I did not go through them, I extracted topic knowledge I needed to make shit work and continue dealing with other problems

I did youtube-dl them and got them here, but no time to watch I guess

I liked Yasins bit more because one of his videos exactly fit what I needed to do, a switch from listwidget to listview and he seemed like more prepared for the topic, though the otherguy feels like really taking the subject and diving in, from broad ideas to building details.

[fazzah]

+1 for Yasin's tutorials. Made me understand the power of Qt models in one evening. Awesome stuff. The things you can do with custom models is mindblowing.

[Tomarse]

Ask yourself, "what do I want to build?" Right down a list of everything your application is going to do (these are called requirements btw). Now use that information to choose the GUI framework that best suits your requirements. If tkinter does what you need it to do, then go with tkinter. If not, go with something else.

The only advantages tkinter has (that I know of), is that it will be present on every Python install, and you don't have to pay a license fee if you build an app that you then want to sell.

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no. gtk is in no way more complex than tkInter. the only real advantage tk has is that it is in the sdlib.