From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 03:07:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6C31065670 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:07:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (unknown [IPv6:2001:44b8:7c07:5581:266:e1ff:fe0c:8f16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7800E8FC17 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2B37WKF090441 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:37:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:37:32 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <28DEC15C-13BF-4F4D-BF87-042208B43B77@gsoft.com.au> References: To: Steve Franks X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Spam-Score: -2.51 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for mature/efficient gui builder/toolkit/IDE for Python (or C for that matter) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:07:35 -0000 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