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60 | <P> | |
61 | There are an number of extension widget sets to <tt class="module"><a href="module-Tkinter.html">Tkinter</a></tt>. | |
62 | ||
63 | <P> | |
64 | <div class="seealso-simple"> | |
65 | ||
66 | <dl compact="compact" class="seetitle"> | |
67 | <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://pmw.sourceforge.net/" | |
68 | >Python megawidgets</a></em></dt> | |
69 | <dd>is a | |
70 | toolkit for building high-level compound widgets in Python using the | |
71 | <tt class="module"><a href="module-Tkinter.html">Tkinter</a></tt> module. It consists of a set of base classes and | |
72 | a library of flexible and extensible megawidgets built on this | |
73 | foundation. These megawidgets include notebooks, comboboxes, selection | |
74 | widgets, paned widgets, scrolled widgets, dialog windows, etc. Also, | |
75 | with the Pmw.Blt interface to BLT, the busy, graph, stripchart, tabset | |
76 | and vector commands are be available. | |
77 | ||
78 | <P> | |
79 | The initial ideas for Pmw were taken from the Tk <code>itcl</code> | |
80 | extensions <code>[incr Tk]</code> by Michael McLennan and <code>[incr | |
81 | Widgets]</code> by Mark Ulferts. Several of the megawidgets are direct | |
82 | translations from the itcl to Python. It offers most of the range of | |
83 | widgets that <code>[incr Widgets]</code> does, and is almost as complete as | |
84 | Tix, lacking however Tix's fast <tt class="class">HList</tt> widget for drawing trees. | |
85 | </dd> | |
86 | </dl> | |
87 | ||
88 | <P> | |
89 | <dl compact="compact" class="seetitle"> | |
90 | <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://tkinter.effbot.org/" | |
91 | >Tkinter3000 Widget Construction | |
92 | Kit (WCK)</a></em></dt> | |
93 | <dd>is a library that allows you to write new Tkinter widgets in pure | |
94 | Python. The WCK framework gives you full control over widget | |
95 | creation, configuration, screen appearance, and event handling. WCK | |
96 | widgets can be very fast and light-weight, since they can operate | |
97 | directly on Python data structures, without having to transfer data | |
98 | through the Tk/Tcl layer.</dd> | |
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102 | <P> | |
103 | Tk is not the only GUI for Python, but is however the | |
104 | most commonly used one. | |
105 | ||
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107 | <div class="seealso-simple"> | |
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109 | <dl compact="compact" class="seetitle"> | |
110 | <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://www.wxwindows.org" | |
111 | >wxWindows</a></em></dt> | |
112 | <dd> | |
113 | is a GUI toolkit that combines the most attractive attributes of Qt, | |
114 | Tk, Motif, and GTK+ in one powerful and efficient package. It is | |
115 | implemented in C++. wxWindows supports two flavors of <span class="Unix">Unix</span> | |
116 | implementation: GTK+ and Motif, and under Windows, it has a standard | |
117 | Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) appearance, because it uses Win32 | |
118 | widgets. There is a Python class wrapper, independent of Tkinter. | |
119 | ||
120 | <P> | |
121 | wxWindows is much richer in widgets than <tt class="module"><a href="module-Tkinter.html">Tkinter</a></tt>, with its | |
122 | help system, sophisticated HTML and image viewers, and other | |
123 | specialized widgets, extensive documentation, and printing capabilities. | |
124 | </dd> | |
125 | </dl> | |
126 | <dl compact="compact" class="seetitle"> | |
127 | <dt><em class="citetitle" | |
128 | >PyQt</em></dt> | |
129 | <dd> | |
130 | PyQt is a <b class="program">sip</b>-wrapped binding to the Qt toolkit. Qt is an | |
131 | extensive C++ GUI toolkit that is available for <span class="Unix">Unix</span>, Windows and | |
132 | Mac OS X. <b class="program">sip</b> is a tool for generating bindings for C++ | |
133 | libraries as Python classes, and is specifically designed for Python. | |
134 | An online manual is available at | |
135 | <a class="url" href="http://www.opendocspublishing.com/pyqt/">http://www.opendocspublishing.com/pyqt/</a> (errata are located at | |
136 | <a class="url" href="http://www.valdyas.org/python/book.html">http://www.valdyas.org/python/book.html</a>). | |
137 | </dd> | |
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140 | <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pykde/index.php" | |
141 | >PyKDE</a></em></dt> | |
142 | <dd> | |
143 | PyKDE is a <b class="program">sip</b>-wrapped interface to the KDE desktop | |
144 | libraries. KDE is a desktop environment for <span class="Unix">Unix</span> computers; the | |
145 | graphical components are based on Qt. | |
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149 | <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://fxpy.sourceforge.net/" | |
150 | >FXPy</a></em></dt> | |
151 | <dd> | |
152 | is a Python extension module which provides an interface to the | |
153 | <em class="citetitle"><a | |
154 | href="http://www.cfdrc.com/FOX/fox.html" | |
155 | title="FOX" | |
156 | >FOX</a></em> GUI. | |
157 | FOX is a C++ based Toolkit for developing Graphical User Interfaces | |
158 | easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and growing, collection of | |
159 | Controls, and provides state of the art facilities such as drag and | |
160 | drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3D graphical | |
161 | manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and user-convenience | |
162 | features such as status line help, and tooltips. | |
163 | ||
164 | <P> | |
165 | Even though FOX offers a large collection of controls already, FOX | |
166 | leverages C++ to allow programmers to easily build additional Controls | |
167 | and GUI elements, simply by taking existing controls, and creating a | |
168 | derived class which simply adds or redefines the desired behavior. | |
169 | </dd> | |
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171 | <dl compact="compact" class="seetitle"> | |
172 | <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/software/pygtk/" | |
173 | >PyGTK</a></em></dt> | |
174 | <dd> | |
175 | is a set of bindings for the <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gtk.org/" | |
176 | >GTK</a> widget set. | |
177 | It provides an object oriented interface that is slightly higher | |
178 | level than the C one. It automatically does all the type casting and | |
179 | reference counting that you would have to do normally with the C | |
180 | API. There are also | |
181 | <a class="ulink" href="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/" | |
182 | >bindings</a> | |
183 | to <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnome.org" | |
184 | >GNOME</a>, and a | |
185 | <a class="ulink" href="http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/pygtutorial/pygtutorial/index.html" | |
186 | >tutorial</a> | |
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