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author | Gautam Chaudhuri <gautam.chaudhuri.1803@gmail.com> | 2021-08-17 09:00:58 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-08-17 09:00:58 (GMT) |
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bpo-44903: Removed othergui.rst and list of GUI frameworks (GH-27762)
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/gui.rst b/Doc/faq/gui.rst index a322fa2..145283d 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/gui.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/gui.rst @@ -14,17 +14,8 @@ Graphic User Interface FAQ General GUI Questions ===================== -What platform-independent GUI toolkits exist for Python? -======================================================== - -Depending on what platform(s) you are aiming at, there are several. Some -of them haven't been ported to Python 3 yet. At least `Tkinter`_ and `Qt`_ -are known to be Python 3-compatible. - -.. XXX check links - -Tkinter -------- +What GUI toolkits exist for Python? +=================================== Standard builds of Python include an object-oriented interface to the Tcl/Tk widget set, called :ref:`tkinter <Tkinter>`. This is probably the easiest to @@ -34,83 +25,12 @@ For more info about Tk, including pointers to the source, see the `Tcl/Tk home page <https://www.tcl.tk>`_. Tcl/Tk is fully portable to the Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix platforms. -wxWidgets ---------- - -wxWidgets (https://www.wxwidgets.org) is a free, portable GUI class -library written in C++ that provides a native look and feel on a -number of platforms, with Windows, Mac OS X, GTK, X11, all listed as -current stable targets. Language bindings are available for a number -of languages including Python, Perl, Ruby, etc. - -`wxPython <https://www.wxpython.org>`_ is the Python binding for -wxwidgets. While it often lags slightly behind the official wxWidgets -releases, it also offers a number of features via pure Python -extensions that are not available in other language bindings. There -is an active wxPython user and developer community. - -Both wxWidgets and wxPython are free, open source, software with -permissive licences that allow their use in commercial products as -well as in freeware or shareware. - - -Qt ---- - -There are bindings available for the Qt toolkit (using either `PyQt -<https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro>`_ or `PySide -<https://wiki.qt.io/PySide>`_) and for KDE (`PyKDE4 <https://techbase.kde.org/Languages/Python/Using_PyKDE_4>`__). -PyQt is currently more mature than PySide, but you must buy a PyQt license from -`Riverbank Computing <https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/commercial/license-faq>`_ -if you want to write proprietary applications. PySide is free for all applications. - -Qt 4.5 upwards is licensed under the LGPL license; also, commercial licenses -are available from `The Qt Company <https://www.qt.io/licensing/>`_. - -Gtk+ ----- - -The `GObject introspection bindings <https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject>`_ -for Python allow you to write GTK+ 3 applications. There is also a -`Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial <https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io>`_. - -The older PyGtk bindings for the `Gtk+ 2 toolkit <https://www.gtk.org>`_ have -been implemented by James Henstridge; see <http://www.pygtk.org>. - -Kivy ----- - -`Kivy <https://kivy.org/>`_ is a cross-platform GUI library supporting both -desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux) and mobile devices (Android, -iOS). It is written in Python and Cython, and can use a range of windowing -backends. - -Kivy is free and open source software distributed under the MIT license. - -FLTK ----- - -Python bindings for `the FLTK toolkit <http://www.fltk.org>`_, a simple yet -powerful and mature cross-platform windowing system, are available from `the -PyFLTK project <https://pyfltk.sourceforge.io/>`_. - -OpenGL ------- - -For OpenGL bindings, see `PyOpenGL <http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net>`_. - - -What platform-specific GUI toolkits exist for Python? -======================================================== - -By installing the `PyObjc Objective-C bridge -<https://pypi.org/project/pyobjc/>`_, Python programs can use Mac OS X's -Cocoa libraries. - -:ref:`Pythonwin <windows-faq>` by Mark Hammond includes an interface to the -Microsoft Foundation Classes and a Python programming environment -that's written mostly in Python using the MFC classes. - +Depending on what platform(s) you are aiming at, there are also several +alternatives. A `list of cross-platform +<https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming#Cross-Platform_Frameworks>`_ and +`platform-specific +<https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming#Platform-specific_Frameworks>`_ GUI +frameworks can be found on the python wiki. Tkinter questions ================= |