Differences between revisions 5 and 6
Revision 5 as of 2006-09-27 13:26:39
Size: 1559
Editor: DavidBoddie
Comment: Starting to think about separating fact from opinion.
Revision 6 as of 2006-11-24 15:24:26
Size: 1982
Editor: cpe-24-27-105-38
Comment: request about the sad but inevitable need to work with VB code and migrate away
Deletions are marked like this. Additions are marked like this.
Line 24: Line 24:

I would also like to see a comparison of toolkits and GUI builders to Visual Basic. More than that I would like to see comparisons for migration paths from existing Visual Basic applications to various Python toolkits. This is sadly a real need out there for some of us. Cross platform is a must, so toolkits along the lines of wxPython are necessary when dealing with VB migration. TIA. -- Jason jtgalyon@gmail.com

To compare libraries, it is often useful to have the same problem implemented using different libraries.

This could be one medium size application (this has been discussed in com.lang.python). But it could also be demo implementations of common GUI related tasks:

  • certain effects using layout managers
  • dynamic menus
  • loading key bindings from a configuration file (and changing menu labels and tooltips accordingly)

This could actually be the start of a cookbook for each toolkit.


See also SelectingGuiToolkitForPython and http://developers.coedit.net/RapidPrototypingWithPython for specific comparisons between some GUI toolkits.


Opinions and other subjective material

The stuff below should probably be moved to another page. I would edit it to fix factual errors (concerning Qt on Windows), but the author probably meant to indicate that their contribution was just their opinion and simply forgot to attach their name to it.

Not sure the right spot for this addition, but I'm looking for a comparision of Python vs. REALBasic for GUI Application development TIA, -- Dean goodmansond@yahoo.com

  • Python is free and open source and has hundreds more of (also free) libraries available. If you want a free (for Linux) GUI builder that is most similar to REALBasic & Visual Basic, see QT Designer and PyQt. To use QT Designer on Windows, see BlackAdder, but it is not free then. For Windows development though, WxPython is probably better than PyQt. PyGtk is also very nice.

I would also like to see a comparison of toolkits and GUI builders to Visual Basic. More than that I would like to see comparisons for migration paths from existing Visual Basic applications to various Python toolkits. This is sadly a real need out there for some of us. Cross platform is a must, so toolkits along the lines of wxPython are necessary when dealing with VB migration. TIA. -- Jason jtgalyon@gmail.com

GuiProgrammingShootout (last edited 2010-01-26 21:22:13 by hmbg-4d06f2a5)

Unable to edit the page? See the FrontPage for instructions.