The upside is that Tk is a pretty versatile toolkit. This has it's upsides and it's downsides. Why Tcl/Tk? Well because Tkinter is just a wrapper around Tcl's GUI toolkit, Tk. It is available on nearly every platform that Python and Tcl/TK are. Tkinter is the de facto standard GUI for Python. There are other GUI solutions out there for Python. Converting a wxPython app to a C++/wxWidgets app should be a straight forward task. You can easily build an application in a few hours with Python that would normally take a few days or longer with C++. With Python it is only an edit-run cycle. With C++ you have to continuously go though the edit-compile-link-run cycle, which can be quite time consuming.
#Python wxwidgets example code#
I only use C++ when I absolutely have to eke more performance out of an algorithm, and even then I usually code it as an extension module and leave the majority of the program in Python.Īnother good thing to use wxPython for is quick prototyping of your wxWidgets apps. So why would you want to use wxPython over just C++ and wxWidgets? Personally I prefer using Python for everything. See the wxPython website for details about getting wxPython working for you. It can be used to create standalone GUI applications, or in situations where Python is embedded in a C++ application as an internal scripting or macro language.Ĭurrently wxPython is available for Win32 platforms and the GTK toolkit (wxGTK) on most Unix/X-windows platforms. This means that there is a wxFrame class in wxPython that looks, smells, tastes and acts almost the same as the wxFrame class in the C++ version. This extension module attempts to mirror the class hierarchy of wxWidgets as closely as possible.
#Python wxwidgets example series#
It provides a series of Python classes that mirror (or shadow) many of the wxWidgets GUI classes. WxPython is a Python package that can be imported at runtime that includes a collection of Python modules and an extension module (native code). Python is copyrighted but freely usable and distributable, even for commercial use. Python is also usable as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, and new built-in modules are easily written in C or C++. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. Python combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. So what is Python? Go to to learn more, but in a nutshell Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. WxPython is a blending of the wxWidgets GUI classes and the Python programming language. This topic was written by Robin Dunn, author of the wxPython wrapper.
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