wxWindows has been ported to GTK2 and is already nearly as solid as the GTK1 port. wxPython can already be built with wxGTK2 but it is not the default until a few remaining issues are ironed out.
On the other hand if I had to distribute this same program to Windows users, I would have to ask them to download and install Python. You want to download something named after a snake?
Not true. The py2exe tool lets you make a bundle of files that include the Python runtime and any extension modules required by your app, and it works very well with wxPython. Your users never need know that they are using Python.
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If you're writing a cross platform motif/win32 app and want to use a windows widget that doesn't exist in motif you're out of luck with wxWin as a wrapper. This can obviously be resolved by having a hybrid toolkit that uses native widgets when it can and resorts to drawing widgets when it has to.
Which is exactly what wxWindows does. There are very few LCD issues in wxWindows, and it will be even further minimised as time goes on and more generic implementations of the core widgets are implemented.
> wxWindows I have found to be a nice XP GUI library/widget set. It's C++ only though, so > that might be a problem for some. It takes advantage of GTK+ or Motif on *NIX. It also > supports win32 and Mac.
Actually it's not C++ only. wxPython is a Python binding for wxWindows and it ROCKS! Once the Mac version is done it may very well become the new de facto standard GUI toolkit for Python, kicking Tk out into the cold.
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wxWindows has been ported to GTK2 and is already nearly as solid as the GTK1 port. wxPython can already be built with wxGTK2 but it is not the default until a few remaining issues are ironed out.
Not true. The py2exe tool lets you make a bundle of files that include the Python runtime and any extension modules required by your app, and it works very well with wxPython. Your users never need know that they are using Python.
Which is exactly what wxWindows does. There are very few LCD issues in wxWindows, and it will be even further minimised as time goes on and more generic implementations of the core widgets are implemented.
> that might be a problem for some. It takes advantage of GTK+ or Motif on *NIX. It also
> supports win32 and Mac.
Actually it's not C++ only. wxPython is a Python binding for wxWindows and it ROCKS! Once the Mac version is done it may very well become the new de facto standard GUI toolkit for Python, kicking Tk out into the cold.