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I generally make my desktop interfaces with Qt, but some recent TK screenshots convince me Tk isn't just ugly motif any more.
Additionally Tkinter comes bundled with Python, which makes distribution easier.
So is it worth learning or should I stick with Qt?
(source: kb-creative.net)
The answer to your question is a resounding yes.
Qt is good, I have nothing against it. But Tk is better and far easier to use and quite well documented - not just on the Python webspace, but there are also many third-party tutorials out there. This particular one is where I learned it from and it has been quite infallible in serving me.
As a step up to other GUI toolkits, sure. If you know other toolkits then you already understand TkInter and can leave it until you actually need it.
You might want to take a look at this(wxPython).
wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first.
-- Guido van Rossum
Why not go for PyQT? You apparently are already familiar with Qt, so it should be relatively easy to learn. In my opinion it looks better than Tkinter, and it sure is better documented.
I used Qt with C++, but decided to have a go with Tkinter with Python. I had a bit of trouble installing the latest version of Tcl/Tk, but got there eventually. I did it all with the help of this tkdocs.com tutorial, which is great.
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I have to create a game in Python for University and it should run on Windows.
Now I have found kivy and I am asking myself, if kivy is even better than pygame or is it just for touch displays and I better use pygame?
We don't have touch displays btw!
The questions are, is kivy easier to program, easier to learn or more efficiently?
P.S.: I'm aware of the fact, that pygame is part of kivy!
I personally find kivy better than pygame. The latter one is kind of outdated and doesn't get much support today while kivy is still growing and gaining new possibilities. It's also not true that kivy is only for touch displays. It's completely multiplatform so you can create a kivy app for almost any operating system without needing to change anything in your code! Although you might get a little bit better performance with pygame, kivy is much more intuitive framework and if you don't aim to create a Crysis I'd go with kivy. Cheers!
P.S. You couldn't make anything like Crysis even with pygame :D If you want to create a 3D game in Python you better use kivent, a 3D engine written in C with Python API dedicated for kivy.
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The following website from the official python tutorial seems to imply that a graphics package is automatically included with an install of Python 3. Beyond being highly skeptical of that, my python 2 does not have the package in question.
http://anh.cs.luc.edu/python/hands-on/3.1/handsonHtml/graphics.html
Does anyone have any ideas or substitutions for performing simple windowed graphics in python, 2 or 3?
The default python "graphics" package is Tkinter
https://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter
In Python 3, it's called "tkinter" - in python 2 it's called "Tkinter". It sometimes includes (depending on your distribution) ttk or tix, which are extensions. It makes direct calls to Tcl, so it's pretty fast at basic operations.
PIL/Pillow is a very standard dependency for any kind of image manipulation. Tkinter basically will only let you work with gif and postscript files
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow
Zelle graphics a beginners graphics program built on tkinter. It is not a serious graphics suite (it's super duper slow), though it can be extremely good for educational purposes. It's meant to accompany his Python book or for self-teaching. Try Turtle as an alternative for teaching purposes, there are a lt of tutorials out there. I don't know which distributions include it, but you can easily download it by googling for it
From your linked page:
You will just be a user of the graphics.py code, so you do not need to
understand the inner workings! It uses all sorts of features of Python
that are way beyond these tutorials.
Those features are called Tkinter. I like tk, and this it's pretty easy to use, but that's subjective - take a look and decide for yourself.
If you're looking for more advanced suites or any kind of 3D (tkinter is strictly 2D) (my guess is you aren't for now, but that's okay), try OpenGl for python, or pygame.
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I am a beginner programmer and have learned most of what I know thus far from using delphi for the past couple of months. A month or so back I decided to give python a try as I was told it may be easier to learn and I really like the language. I guess I just seem to pick things up easier using it.
The only problem is that I can't seem to find a good IDE for it that works in the way that Delphi does. I want to create desktop apps with nice GUIs so it would be nice to have something similar to Delphi/Visual studio to work with.
I have searched around and could find anything. Was wondering if anyone could lend a hand.
Also, from what I have gathered Ironpython seems to be the same as python coding wise. I don't mind my apps only being able to work on windows. Is Python Tools a good option. I mean is it basically like using visual studio but with python code instead?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks.
Boa Constructor is a classic RAD IDE for GUI applications (wxpython, both linux and windows). People is still using it but seems that development stopped some years ago. PythonCard is another RAD IDE I used in the past but also unmaintained right now
Although they are not IDEs, some tools are very helpful for GUI design like:
- wxglade (wxpython, included as a pluging in Stani Python Editor, only python2.x)
- qtdesigner (qt-pyqt or pyside, included in pyqt. Spyder IDE, build on pyqt, has a dedicated link to it. Works also for python 3.x)
I use PyGTK to interact with GTK.
http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/gtk-class-reference.html
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/
But there is also QT, and WXpython, that are worthy.
http://thekompany.com/products/blackadder/
I always liked BoaConstructor which is a wxPython GUI Builder.
Doesn't seems to be actively maintained any longer though...
wxpython is very active though...
Python Tools is basically just like using VS but with Python. It's got intellisense, debugging, profiling, etc... When working w/ IronPython the .NET debugger is a little rough (you'll see internal implementation details) but you can still use the pure Python debugger which gives you a Pythonic view.
The intellisense engine is aware of the GUI designer so you'll get completions against the controls defined in XAML. And you'll get auto-definition of handler methods when you do things like double click on buttons in the GUI designer or select to define an event handler in the properties pane. Probably the biggest missing thing is that there's no support for user controls and there's also no designer support for WinForms.
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I'm starting to develop interfaces for my python applications , but I've seen that there are diferents tools to do it, so I would like to know which could be the best, I need something, easy, portable and pretty results. I hope that you can help me.
Pick the one you like, there's no "the best" here.
Personally I like PyQt4, because I like QT4, and py2exe works perfectly fine with it, wxPython is another good thing, but it does not work very well under Windows, see my question here: wx.App (wxPython) crash when calling
You can check some application developed using each frameworks, and see if you like any.
For PyGTK - Glade should be your best bet. Similarly, Rapyd-Tk seems to be good for TK. Though for Tk, I would advise you to try with the articles which help you build from the code and then go with the builders. This answer in SO provides the wealth of options available for building GUI using WxPython.
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I need to create a simple windows based GUI for a desktop application that will be downloaded by end users. The application is written in python and will be packaged as an installer or executable.
The functionality I need is simple - selecting from various lists, showing progress bars, etc. No animations, sprites, or other taxing/exotic things.
Seems there are quite a few options for Python GUI libraries (Tk, QT, wxPython, Gtk, etc). What do you recommend that:
Is easy to learn and maintain
Can be cleanly packaged using py2exe or something similar
Looks nice
[Update] For what it's worth I ended up going with tkinter. It's fairly well documented, can be made to look nice (mainly, use native fonts), and most importantly ships with Python so there's nothing extra to worry about. wxpython also looked good, but the download was 10M or so, and I didn't want to add that extra weight to the packages I distribute.
tkinter's major advantage (IMHO!) is that it comes with Python (at least on Windows). It looks ugly, and there's no progress bar or something like that (at least not builtin). Being a thin wrapper around Tk, its API doesn't feel very elegant or intuitive. However, there are quite a few good Tkinter resources on the web so learning it is not necessarily a pain.
For any serious GUI attempts, I'd go for wxPython as well. I don't know about packaging, though. But I wouldn't expect any problems.
I've recommended wxPython in the past and it's still an excellent tool. The others always seemed somewhat cumbersome to me.
There's instructions out there on the web which show exactly how to package a wxPython GUI.
The wxAui section in particular can give some really clean / usable results:
The most beautiful one that I can suggest is PyQt (almost native), otherwise a good idea would be using directly IronPython that is native .net code.
Anyway nothing beats tkinter for multi-platformness and packaging-friendliness.
I've used wxPython in the past (For Mac/Windows deployments). It has worked good. And it looks nicer than Tk :)
From using both wxPython and TKinter, I'd say wxPython looks nicer and is easy to learn.
Although you said you are planning on using the program for Windows, it's worth mentioning that I've had problems with TKinter on Mac not working correctly.