Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-22 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Michael Ekstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ME) wrote: ME I've used both wxPython and PyGTK. I find wxPython to be horribly ME un-pythonic; combining that some problems on the Mac, and some ME other installation/environment issues, I ditched it for PyGTK. But AFAIK GTK doesn't have a native

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-22 Thread Renato
Hardly a showstopper: gtk works now (with X11), and will work even better soon (native). :-) -- Ciao, Renato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-14 Thread Alan Franzoni
Paul Boddie on comp.lang.python said: Now, since the commercial licence is per developer, some cunning outfit could claim that only one developer wrote their product (rather than one hundred developers, say), but this would be a fairly big breach of trust (although nothing unusual in the

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2006-03-13, Paul Boddie schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul Rubin wrote: Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What people don't usually understand (or rather complain about loudly) is that Trolltech can refuse to license Qt to you under the commercial licence, as is their right as the

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Boddie
Alan Franzoni wrote: Just one thing I don't understand: if you're developing all your software inside your company, how would they know if you already coded it or you still have to? I have no idea. But as I said elsewhere, I'm not in any sense a party to the process that would attempt to

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-14 Thread Chris Mellon
On 14 Mar 2006 06:10:19 -0800, Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Franzoni wrote: Just one thing I don't understand: if you're developing all your software inside your company, how would they know if you already coded it or you still have to? I have no idea. But as I said

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Thomas Guettler
Am Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:10:09 +0100 schrieb Sybren Stuvel: Thomas Guettler enlightened us with: The licence for QT is GPL, this means you cannot use it in commercial application. That is why I never looked at it. Ehmm... from their website: From

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Thomas Guettler enlightened us with: There is a GPL version for Linux. But the GPL does not allow linking with closed source software. The availability of a GPL license does not negate the availability of a commercial license. You can write commercial, closed source software on Linux using Qt

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Boddie
Thomas Guettler wrote: Have you read all the text? Two qualities of the Qt Commercial License should be emphasized: You need it before you start development of proprietary software. You must purchase a Qt Commercial License from Trolltech or from any of its authorized resellers before

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Rubin
Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What people don't usually understand (or rather complain about loudly) is that Trolltech can refuse to license Qt to you under the commercial licence, as is their right as the owner of the copyrighted work. What is the deal here? Why would they refuse, to

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Mellon
On 13 Mar 2006 10:19:05 -0800, Paul Rubin http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid wrote: Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What people don't usually understand (or rather complain about loudly) is that Trolltech can refuse to license Qt to you under the commercial licence, as is their right as the

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Boddie
Paul Rubin wrote: Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What people don't usually understand (or rather complain about loudly) is that Trolltech can refuse to license Qt to you under the commercial licence, as is their right as the owner of the copyrighted work. What is the deal here?

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread ahart
i'm pretty much a newbie, too, and have been dabbling with some gui tools so far, i like pythoncard pretty well it wraps wxpython and seems to be pretty easy to use -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-12 Thread invitro81
You guys are great :) thanx for the plenty answers and suggestions; I've made my search through a little more and decided to start coding the same app first with pygtk and second with wxpython.. and perhaps later with pyqt. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-11 Thread David Boddie
Alan Franzoni wrote: FLTK was interesting but seems to lack maintenance and support, Looking at the News section of the project's home page, I can see that updates were few and far between in 2004 and 2005, but the action seems to have picked up again since:

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-11 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:07:52 +0100 Alan Franzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: again to make a choice is difficult; is there also some guy liking pyqt is it worse or should it be avoided because of the licencing policy for qt (which I also like..)? * Which one is the most fun to program

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-11 Thread Roger Binns
invitro81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] But I've no idea which one I should use to start with.. One thing you'll need to carefully decide is where you want to end up. The different toolkits have different limits on where you can go. A simple example is printing.

Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread invitro81
Hello I've recently learnt python and I do love it! I congratulate all those geeks who produce this nice language; well, because I could be called a nearby newbee I've decided to improve my abilities by writing my own nice editor with python; so I've to choose among all those GUI toolkit's

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Peter Decker
On 3/10/06, invitro81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I've no idea which one I should use to start with.. I've read that tkinter seems to be the de facto standart in the pyhon community; but why? Is it the best available one or are theire other reasons? I read also a litte about wxpython and

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Cell
invitro81 schreef: Hello I've recently learnt python and I do love it! I congratulate all those geeks who produce this nice language; well, because I could be called a nearby newbee I've decided to improve my abilities by writing my own nice editor with python; so I've to choose among all

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Brunel
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:36:18 +0100, invitro81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've recently learnt python and I do love it! I congratulate all those geeks who produce this nice language; well, because I could be called a nearby newbee I've decided to improve my abilities by writing my own

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Thomas Guettler enlightened us with: The licence for QT is GPL, this means you cannot use it in commercial application. That is why I never looked at it. Ehmm... from their website: The Qt Commercial License is the correct license to use for the construction of proprietary, commercial

Bear not false witness (was: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?)

2006-03-10 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Guettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . tkinter (or better TK) has no good table widget. . . . URL:

Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread dimitri pater
Hi,in stead of going for the traditional GUIS like wxPython, PyGtk and the like, you could consider using a browser based GUI. Try CherryPy for instance. See also here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/442481regards,Dimitri On 3/10/06, invitro81 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Alan Franzoni
invitro81 on comp.lang.python said: again to make a choice is difficult; is there also some guy liking pyqt is it worse or should it be avoided because of the licencing policy for qt (which I also like..)? * Which one is the most fun to program with? * Which one is the most