I will look at QT, I see there is a book on QT4 in Amazon which would get me started. Previously the Windows license put me off QT but I understand that has changed now.
It isn't only the font problem but behavious for some wx widgets is different too (and odd on linux for the combo box) Tim Jones-8 wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2009, at 1:42 AM, jimscafe wrote: > >> I am a businessman who writes his own software to help run the >> business. That >> said I started writing software in Fortran on an ICL mainframe, >> then on a >> Commodore pet, then an Apple II. >> >> I gravitated towards Python some 6 years ago (via java and perl) >> and enjoy >> Python. >> >> The gui is another matter. I tried TK at first then for the last 3 >> years >> have been using wxPython - I bought a book on it as I find the >> documentation >> difficult, not to say irritating at times. > > Sorry to usurp the TK-ness of this thread, but have you taken a look > at PyQT (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro)? > It's Python wrappers for the QT framework. Now that Nokia has > removed the commercial limitations on the QT development environment, > and since you're not writing commercial apps, the combination of PyQT > and QT are free. QT's implementation is pretty solid across all > platforms, but be aware that ANY cross-platform toolkit is going to > see problems with the DPI setting differences between Windows (72 DPI > default) and Linux X11 (72 to 99 DPI default). You really need to > create your widgets in such a manner that things can be scaled based > on your determination of the system's current DPI value. > > You can get the DPI value on Linux using "xdpyinfo | grep resolution" > in a terminal. > > HTH, > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/From-wxPython-to-TK-tp22595091p22654088.html Sent from the Python - tkinter-discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
