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Tennesseej
Tennesseej

Reputation: 409

Modern GUI programming in Python 3.3

I am putting together a few programs, and it's about time to start making GUI's for some of them. The code is currently written in Python 3.3.

I have researched a few GUI's for Python, namely Tkinter, wxPython and PyGTK. Everything I am finding seems to only create GUI's that look fairly archaic. I have created a couple of example GUI's, and they all work, they just look very Windows 95.

An example of what I am finding/creating: http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/file/n4545517/MLDataAnalyzer5.png

An example of what I want-ish: http://images.six.betanews.com/screenshots/1237236321-1.jpg

Is it simply an advanced knowledge of how the GUI's work, or are there just GUI modules more suited for "modern" looking GUI's?

If it is advanced knowledge of how the GUI's work, are there some tutorials out there for how to make GUI's look more "modern".

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 21

Views: 50286

Answers (4)

Eren Arıcı
Eren Arıcı

Reputation: 769

You can use htmlPy. So you can create GUI's with css html js with good looks.

Upvotes: 2

luart
luart

Reputation: 1451

QT is a good choice in many cases, but sometimes you need much faster response time, or native support of OpenGL(ES), or just another license. There are a lot of alternatives:

Upvotes: 1

kalx
kalx

Reputation: 21

After a lot of research I've decided to use the Qt bindings library for Python called PyQt5 (http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5). It's quite easy to implement and has tons of documentation. The interface elements (called widgets in Qt) look exactly like the ones in the host operating system: if you run the program in Windows 95, they'll look like that, same for Windows 7, and even MacOS. I find Qt extremely powerful. I'm developing a Python/MySQL application and the QtSql module helps a lot in the development with creating tables.

Upvotes: 2

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 385940

Tkinter comes with a set of widgets called "themed tk", provided by the ttk module. It provides more modern-looking alternatives to some of the core widgets such as buttons and labels, and it also has a few new widgets such as a notebook and tree.

Upvotes: 15

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