Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:37:32 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for mature/efficient gui builder/toolkit/IDE for Python (or C for that matter) Message-ID: <28DEC15C-13BF-4F4D-BF87-042208B43B77@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=ZvUJ%2Be2TB74oEJwNbrMs8LchABCUS2K8k4Nkf@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=ZvUJ%2Be2TB74oEJwNbrMs8LchABCUS2K8k4Nkf@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/03/2011, at 10:55, Steve Franks wrote: > I'm interested in doing some graphical serial-port parsing software in > Python (or possibly C which I'm actually more familiar with) - anyone > care to render an opinion on the most direct route to a usable gui? >=20 > I figure Python is probably somewhat the preferred language these days > for GUIs given the large number of 'nix desktop apps that have been > showing up in python of late... >=20 > Last time I wrote a gui was in VisualC 6.0, so it's been awhile - with > VisualC it took about the same amount of time to write all the > coordinates for a GUI in the code as it did to draw it and hook up the > code; hopefully things have gotten a bit more streamlined - hoping to > spend most of my coding time on string parsing, not gui building... Try pyqt4, you can draw your GUI in Qt Designer and then run pyuic on = the resulting file and it generates a .py class you can then subclass to = change the behaviour you want. [ Redirected to -chat ] -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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