GUI development like Visual Studio

[veledrom]

Hi,

I've started learning Python and want to find out how easy is creating GUI for a software. I used to use VB6 with Visual Studio and it was all about Drag and Drop items on a form. Do we have such thing or we just have to hand code everyhing?

Thanks

[Gribouillis]

There are gui builders for wxpython, pyqt and pygtk, I suggest that you start with this list of tools http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming . I read good reports about pythoncard for example. See here http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/walkthrough2.html

[memilanuk]

With the right setup in PyQt4, it can be a little less painful... you can create the GUI in Qt Designer and convert the resulting XML file to a python module and import it into your main program. Scripting the actions behind the GUI i.e. what happens when you press a given button is hand-coded separately, though.

[vegaseat]

Check also this discussion:
http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/426800/ide-for-python#post1825928

Also check this example of PyQT/PySide and its Designer program:
http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/191210/python-gui-programming/9#post1777652

[chriswelborn]

i've only been using Python for a couple weeks now, I wrote a program in tKinter and it was okay (i used xrope as a gui designer). The GUI looked dated. But then I stumbled upon Glade 3 and GTK. It takes some getting used to, because I'm coming from VB .Net and its awesome form designer, but I really like it.

[HiHe]

If you use the wxPython GUI toolkit, there is also the wxFormBuilder program, very nice and free.

See the examples at:
http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/128350/starting-wxpython-gui-code/8#post1802067

http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/259746/wxformbuilder-support-wxpython#post1129943