Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-08 Thread Nick Raptis
Thanks a lot for the mails all of you. Someone commented that wxpython occassionally shows it C/C++ roots. Will that haunt me cos' I have zero knowledge of C/C++. That would be me, sorry about that, didn't mean to confuse you further. Well, think it this way, if you have zero knowledge of C,

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-08 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Payal writes: [...] > Thanks a lot for the mails all of you. > Someone commented that wxpython occassionally shows it C/C++ roots. Will > that haunt me cos' I have zero knowledge of C/C++. > > What about py-gtk? Is it more pythonic to learn and hence easy? I've used wx and pygtk and don't reall

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-08 Thread Payal
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 07:48:53PM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote: > Nowadays they are all acceptable looking but wxPython would > be my recommendation, mainly for its support for printing, which > sounds easy but in Guis is surprisingly difficult. wxPython makes > it about as easy as it can be. > Thanks

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-07 Thread Nick Raptis
Well, choice is a great thing! Except when you're new and all that choice seems overwhelming :) When I started out python a year ago, I knew just enough C to know that I didn't want C/C++ to be my first language that I learned. That's why I found the wxPython style a nuisance, because I was at t

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"Nick Raptis" wrote Really good news is that on this very list on another thread, someone suggested Dabo http://dabodev.com/ It's a python library on top of wxPython and it's database-logic-GUI But its not a complete wrapper for wxPython so you still need to revert to wxPython at some stage

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread John
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 05:35:34 pm Nick Raptis wrote: > Please excuse if I'm jumping on the topic. Haven't done any GUI work so > this interests me too. > > wxPython always seemed a great choice as it works on all platforms, and > uses GTK+ for linux. > Well, what mainly bugs me about wxPython is

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Nick Raptis
Please excuse if I'm jumping on the topic. Haven't done any GUI work so this interests me too. wxPython always seemed a great choice as it works on all platforms, and uses GTK+ for linux. Well, what mainly bugs me about wxPython is that most of it's API names come from the wx C library, you al

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Eric Hamiter
If you decide to run with wxPython there is a pretty handy video series you could watch: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=PythonWxPythonBeginnersSeries Eric On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > "Payal" wrote > > gui programming? There seems to be many ways to do

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Payal" wrote gui programming? There seems to be many ways to do gui programming in Python namely wxpython, tkinter, gtk, qt etc. Which is the easiest There are many toolkits but these have as many similarities as differences. But none of them will be easy to learn if you have not done GUI

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Adam Bark
On 6 July 2010 18:09, Payal wrote: > Hi all, > Some background before the actual query. > A friend of mine, an electronics engineer has a > small co. He had a computer engg. with him who used to design GUI > front-ends > for his products in Visual Basic. These apps used to take data from > serial

[Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Payal
Hi all, Some background before the actual query. A friend of mine, an electronics engineer has a small co. He had a computer engg. with him who used to design GUI front-ends for his products in Visual Basic. These apps used to take data from serial port, store it on disk put and show it in excel al