Showing posts with label gui toolkits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gui toolkits. Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Tkinter? Really?

Of all the GUI widget tool kits available Python (PyGTK, PyQT, and wxPython, to name the most popular), the one I use most often is Tkinter, the Python interface for Tcl/Tk. The fact that your Python code is actually calling Tcl/Tk in the background is kind of icky, but Tkinter is also much simpler than any of the other options.

Years ago, the first automation project that I wrote in Python, required a simple GUI which meant that I had to learn a toolkit real fast, and Tkinter's simplicity was a definite advantage. I have written small Python desktop apps using wxPython, but for automation GUIs I always end up using Tkinter again. Yes, I know I'm weird. ^_^