Microbits » gui http://microbits.info Random thoughts about programming, gaming, and the world. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:43:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Python for Windows applications http://microbits.info/index.php/2010/06/python-for-windows-applications http://microbits.info/index.php/2010/06/python-for-windows-applications#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:56:25 +0000 recon http://microbits.info/?p=632 From what I’ve seen of Python, I relegated it to CUI and backend type tasks, since C# and .NET offer a powerful GUI platform out of the box, and Python seemingly didn’t have anything similar.

After looking into the OpenERP/OpenObject project (which looks pretty neat), I realized their complex GUI was written in Python. After a little investigation, I figured out they were using PyGTK (Python bindings for the GTK widget toolkit) and Glade (a GUI builder).

Combining Python, PyGTK and Glade seems to lead to a workable solution for creating GUIs for Python applications. There’s a nice tutorial on how all these pieces fit together here.

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