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Date:      Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:37:32 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: looking for mature/efficient gui builder/toolkit/IDE for Python (or C for that matter)
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On 11/03/2011, at 10:55, Steve Franks wrote:
> I'm interested in doing some graphical serial-port parsing software in
> Python (or possibly C which I'm actually more familiar with) - anyone
> care to render an opinion on the most direct route to a usable gui?
>=20
> I figure Python is probably somewhat the preferred language these days
> for GUIs given the large number of 'nix desktop apps that have been
> showing up in python of late...
>=20
> Last time I wrote a gui was in VisualC 6.0, so it's been awhile - with
> VisualC it took about the same amount of time to write all the
> coordinates for a GUI in the code as it did to draw it and hook up the
> code; hopefully things have gotten a bit more streamlined - hoping to
> spend most of my coding time on string parsing, not gui building...

Try pyqt4, you can draw your GUI in Qt Designer and then run pyuic on =
the resulting file and it generates a .py class you can then subclass to =
change the behaviour you want.

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