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@ -25,27 +25,26 @@ For more info about Tk, including pointers to the source, see the Tcl/Tk home
page at http://www.tcl.tk. Tcl/Tk is fully portable to the MacOS, Windows, and
Unix platforms.
wxWindows
wxWidgets
'''''''''
wxWindows is a portable GUI class library written in C++ that's a portable
interface to various platform-specific libraries; wxWidgets is a Python
interface to wxWindows. wxWindows supports Windows and MacOS; on Unix variants,
it supports both GTk+ and Motif toolkits. wxWindows preserves the look and feel
of the underlying graphics toolkit, and there is quite a rich widget set and
collection of GDI classes. See `the wxWindows page <http://www.wxwindows.org>`_
for more details.
wxWidgets is a GUI class library written in C++ that's a portable
interface to various platform-specific libraries, and that has a
Python interface called `wxPython <http://www.wxpython.org>`__.
`wxWidgets <http://wxwidgets.org>`_ is an extension module that wraps many of
the wxWindows C++ classes, and is quickly gaining popularity amongst Python
developers. You can get wxWidgets as part of the source or CVS distribution of
wxWindows, or directly from its home page.
wxWidgets preserves the look and feel of the
underlying graphics toolkit, and has a large set of widgets and
collection of GDI classes. See `the wxWidgets page
<http://www.wxwidgets.org>`_ for more details.
wxWidgets supports Windows and MacOS; on Unix variants,
it supports both GTk+ and Motif toolkits.
Qt
'''
There are bindings available for the Qt toolkit (`PyQt
<http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/>`_) and for KDE (PyKDE). If
<http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/>`_) and for KDE (`PyKDE <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pykde/intro>`__). If
you're writing open source software, you don't need to pay for PyQt, but if you
want to write proprietary applications, you must buy a PyQt license from
`Riverbank Computing <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk>`_ and (up to Qt 4.4;
@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ Gtk+
''''
PyGtk bindings for the `Gtk+ toolkit <http://www.gtk.org>`_ have been
implemented by by James Henstridge; see ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/.
implemented by James Henstridge; see <http://www.pygtk.org>.
FLTK
''''
@ -85,14 +84,15 @@ What platform-specific GUI toolkits exist for Python?
`The Mac port <http://python.org/download/mac>`_ by Jack Jansen has a rich and
ever-growing set of modules that support the native Mac toolbox calls. The port
includes support for MacOS9 and MacOS X's Carbon libraries. By installing the
`PyObjc Objective-C bridge <http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net>`_, Python programs
can use MacOS X's Cocoa libraries. See the documentation that comes with the Mac
port.
supports MacOS X's Carbon libraries.
By installing the `PyObjc Objective-C bridge
<http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net>`_, Python programs can use MacOS X's
Cocoa libraries. See the documentation that comes with the Mac port.
:ref:`Pythonwin <windows-faq>` by Mark Hammond includes an interface to the
Microsoft Foundation Classes and a Python programming environment using it
that's written mostly in Python.
Microsoft Foundation Classes and a Python programming environment
that's written mostly in Python using the MFC classes.
Tkinter questions
@ -105,23 +105,26 @@ Freeze is a tool to create stand-alone applications. When freezing Tkinter
applications, the applications will not be truly stand-alone, as the application
will still need the Tcl and Tk libraries.
One solution is to ship the application with the tcl and tk libraries, and point
One solution is to ship the application with the Tcl and Tk libraries, and point
to them at run-time using the :envvar:`TCL_LIBRARY` and :envvar:`TK_LIBRARY`
environment variables.
To get truly stand-alone applications, the Tcl scripts that form the library
have to be integrated into the application as well. One tool supporting that is
SAM (stand-alone modules), which is part of the Tix distribution
(http://tix.mne.com). Build Tix with SAM enabled, perform the appropriate call
to Tclsam_init etc inside Python's Modules/tkappinit.c, and link with libtclsam
and libtksam (you might include the Tix libraries as well).
(http://tix.sourceforge.net/).
Build Tix with SAM enabled, perform the appropriate call to
:cfunc:`Tclsam_init`, etc. inside Python's
:file:`Modules/tkappinit.c`, and link with libtclsam and libtksam (you
might include the Tix libraries as well).
Can I have Tk events handled while waiting for I/O?
---------------------------------------------------
Yes, and you don't even need threads! But you'll have to restructure your I/O
code a bit. Tk has the equivalent of Xt's XtAddInput() call, which allows you
code a bit. Tk has the equivalent of Xt's :cfunc:`XtAddInput()` call, which allows you
to register a callback function which will be called from the Tk mainloop when
I/O is possible on a file descriptor. Here's what you need::