On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:14:29AM -0800, C.S. Xu wrote:
I haven't seen any replies yet, so I will.
| I recently learned a little bit of wxPython and pyGtk,
| (I like Python very much ever since I started to learn
| it half a year ago.) pyGtk's starting time and memeory
| usages both are half of wxPython's, at least on my
| computer.
This is because GTK is a stand alone toolkit. wxWindows is a wrapper
around the native tookit (MSW, GTK, etc) which adds overhead to it.
wxPython is then a wrapper around wxWindows (just as PyGTK is a
wrapper around GTK).
| But can Gtk run well on windows ? (a newbie's
| question,
| but I haven't found any answer on internet.) and can
| pyGtk provide wxPython's funtionalities shown in their
| demo ?
GTK runs pretty well on windows (see www.gimp.org/win32). The gimp
uses it, and it was the reason Tor began porting GTK. The gimp runs
quite well. I don't know whether the gimp or gtk is the cause of most
of the gimp's crashes. Search on google for Hans Breuer. He has
windows ports of a number of useful apps, some of them python related,
on his web site.
| I'm just curious about which Python GUI I should learn, or should
| learn first.
Learn both of them. It is good to have experience with more than one
toolkit. I used GTK (the C++ bindings, gtk--) for a large project at
school. I used glade to generate the bulk of the gui code (~3100 loc
while the rest of the project wsa ~3000 loc). I like GTK a lot, both
in L&F and in how easy it is to use. (For example, I can never get
panels to look right using Swing's layout managers)
I have taken a look at wxPython, but I haven't used it for anything
yet so I can't really comment on how nice it is from a programmer's
perspective. The demo does look really nice though.
HTH,
-D
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