Python -> GUI

joni · 2007-03-15 23:45:34

Hello. I've started to learn Python in the last 2 days. I have heard about PyGTK (I'm using Gnome) and Glade. How can I build the GUI for a simple program. For example a simple "Hello World"? Thaks.

Sorry for my english.

stonecrest · 2007-03-16 00:27:01

pygtk.org

Dusty · 2007-03-16 02:07:00

Having used both PyGTK and WXPython, I'd suggest WXPython is a little easier to use and more featureful. PyGTK has tended to be more stable in the past though.

I don't have python (or even linux :'() installed at the moment, or I'd create a hello world window right inside the python interpreter for you. But since google is awesome, I'll link you:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=hello+world+wxpython

Dusty

deficite · 2007-03-16 07:13:18

I also suggest WxPython. Whenever I first started using PyGTK I thought it was great. Then I tried to use some very simple, very basic controls and realized how anal PyGTK can really be. I'd like to try PyQT(4) sometime too. Anybody have any experience with it?

Speek · 2007-03-16 09:58:18

Here are some tutorials: http://www.learningpython.com/

lemon · 2007-03-16 10:19:51

import gtk
import gnome.ui
import gtk.glade

wTree = gtk.glade.XML("nameofgladefile.glade") # Name of the gladefile you made
window = wTree.get_widget("window1") # Name of the main window, you can set the name in glade
window.show()

http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/index.html

Stalwart · 2007-03-16 12:44:56

PyQt4 ftw. I wrote simple ipod manager using it

joni · 2007-03-16 13:40:00

ok. i think ill learn some wxpython. but there is some tool like glade for python? i have found XRCed http://xrced.sourceforge.net/ its a good tool.

skymt · 2007-03-16 14:29:33

http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/

pelle.k · 2007-03-16 18:48:32

I'd like to try PyQT(4) sometime too. Anybody have any experience with it?

I can't comment on QT4 yet, but QT3 is simply awsome. I found it much more straight forward than pyGTK. Unfortunately there is far more pyGTK tutorials floating around the web. qtdoc makes up for that though.

gradgrind · 2007-03-17 05:44:06

pelle.k wrote:

I'd like to try PyQT(4) sometime too. Anybody have any experience with it?
I can't comment on QT4 yet, but QT3 is simply awsome. I found it much more straight forward than pyGTK. Unfortunately there is far more pyGTK tutorials floating around the web. qtdoc makes up for that though.

I have been working on a project using pyqt4 for a while now and am very impressed, though I think pygtk might be easier for a beginner (except maybe the tree/list-view stuff). glade is quite a lot simpler than qtdesigner, which rather confused me with its many features, so I haven't been using it. Qt4 is really very big, with unbelievably many classes and widgets, many of which you wouldn't normally need to touch, but they are there when you need them (gtk is at present a bit more limited). The documentation is pretty good, but doesn't cover absolutely everything you might need to know. I have had to work out quite a bit myself by guessing and playing around. I'm not absolutely sold on some of the features (such as the signals/slots implementation), but I would certainly recommend giving it a look, it feels really solid and comprehensive.

Oh, and if you are in the unfortunate position of needing to write code which which also run on w****ws, pyqt4 looks like a pretty good choice.

My (very limited) experience with wxpython was not so positive (it seemed buggy and the documentation confused as often as it enlightened me), but as that could just be my problem I'll not say any more about it.

N30N · 2007-04-15 21:13:20

Here are some basic wxPython video tutorials to get you going.

deficite · 2007-04-17 02:12:05

except maybe the tree/list-view stuff

Doing tree/list-view stuff made me angry. I sobbed like a little girl. Then I used WxPython and all my tears dried away (though some of the design choices the wxPython devs made irritated me). Then I tried PyQT4 and the room brightened and rainbows surrounded me. A blind man that was walking in front of my house gained back his sense of vision, and the corpse of a dead dog rose and did a flip, happy to be alive once more.

pelle.k · 2007-04-17 20:34:02

Then I tried PyQT4 and the room brightened and rainbows surrounded me. A blind man that was walking in front of my house gained back his sense of vision, and the corpse of a dead dog rose and did a flip, happy to be alive once more.

That's freakin awsome bro'. It it sounds so great in your poetical words...

cactus · 2007-04-17 21:10:24

hahaha!

That is the funniest thing I have read on the forums in months!

Zer0 · 2007-04-17 23:38:22

pelle.k wrote:

Then I tried PyQT4 and the room brightened and rainbows surrounded me. A blind man that was walking in front of my house gained back his sense of vision, and the corpse of a dead dog rose and did a flip, happy to be alive once more.
That's freakin awsome bro'. It it sounds so great in your poetical words...

LMAO.. and some say Python is a beginners language.. sounds pretty damn powerful to me!

Could we see a snippit of code you used to witness these things?

Best Post Ever!

stonecrest · 2007-04-18 01:35:11

I personally love pygtk.

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-04-19 22:13:07

The python's bite's an antidote to poison inflicted on humans and other entities by way too complex programming?

Sounds nice nontheless.

I like poetical wording, wherever it may find its usage.

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