[python-win32] Win32 GUI for beginners.

[Sean Murphy]

Hi all.

I am very very new to Python. I have read the book on programming for Windows 
with Python that was released in 2000. The book is very good but doesn't give 
me the basic information I am seeking. Since I am a beginner programmer.

I want to create a GUI windows app with Python. The program has to use default 
Windows 32 or 64 bit objects. I wish to get the following components:

Menu bar
Listview
Treeview 
Richedit or a multiline edit field
A couple of buttons.
All objects must be able to be access by the keyboard. either via tab stops 
(using the tab or shift tab key) and short cut keys.


I have a 70 mb text file that is marked up using YML. I wish to show each 
section in the edit field. The list view shows the name of each item. The tree 
view will contain categories. 

I have seen PYGUI which I am not sure if it is easier then using the MSF 
approach which the book above mentions. 

So I really need assistance to progress this home bobbie project to expand my 
programming skills. Any wikis, documentations, good code examples with 
explanations, etc I would love to get my hands on.

I am reading about 3 or 4 books on Python to get up to speed. But only found 
one book on Win32 programming. I do not want to have to turn around and learn 
win32 or MFC. If I have to then please point me towards a good book or resource.


Regards
Sean 
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Re: [python-win32] Win32 GUI for beginners.

[Sean Murphy]

All,

thanks for the information. I will look into it. In relation to Tim's comment. 
The reason why I want to stick to Win32 API's is because I am blind. The screen 
reader which allows me to use the computer does not work with Xwindow style 
widgets.  They have to be native Windows style objects. 

That is the challenge I have in front of me in finding a GUI library that works 
with my screen reader.

I do have some knowledge of Event driven, OOPS programming. But it is very 
basic and normally I use other peoples codes. :-)

I am in the middle of writing a Telnet app to send a huge config to my router 
which is one of my learning steps. :-)

Sean 
On 01/01/2014, at 7:06 AM, Tim Roberts  wrote:

> Sean Murphy wrote:
>> I am very very new to Python. I have read the book on programming for 
>> Windows with Python that was released in 2000. The book is very good but 
>> doesn't give me the basic information I am seeking. Since I am a beginner 
>> programmer.
> 
> I want to caution you that you have an awful lot of fundamental concepts
> to get down before you're ready to tackle something like this.  You have
> to learn the Python language, which means learning the concepts of
> class-based and object-oriented programming.  After getting
> straight-line programming, you'll have to learn the concepts of
> event-driven programming, which is the paradigm used by all of the
> modern GUIs.  Then, you'll need to learn the idiosyncracies of whatever
> GUI library you choose, all of which make compromises to mate with the
> variations in the operating systems they support.
> 
> 
>> I want to create a GUI windows app with Python. The program has to use 
>> default Windows 32 or 64 bit objects.
> 
> I'm curious to know what you meant by that.  Do you simply mean you
> don't want to buy any components?  Because essentially all of the major
> Python GUI toolkits have their own library of components that are vastly
> simpler to use than the SDK components.
> 
> If you REALLY just want to write an MFC program in Python, it's possible
> to do that using pywin32, but it's not really very Python-like.
> 
> -- 
> Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
> 
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