developing GUI applications on pi

[shauzi158]

hey there. i am new on raspberry and i wanted to know if I could make some graphical python applications in PI. if yes, please state how or give links.

[stevepdp]

My understanding is that Python has bindings for a handful popular toolkits, the most notable being GTK, QT and TK.

QT has Python bindings provided by the package "python3-pyside". It's documented in Learning Python With Raspberry Pi and here.

A friend recently mentioned PyGObject to me as a ways of building GTK applications in Python. That's covered here.

I'm just getting started on GUIs myself so I couldn't tell you which toolkits to go for or reasons why to pick one toolkit over another. Hopefully somebody with more experience will chime in...

Hope this info at least gets you started.

[toxibunny]

If what you want to do is not too complex, and/or you're relatively new to programming, then it might be better to just use pygame. It's a lot more pleasant to get to grips with than qt, to put it mildly...

[DeeJay]

In agreement with what toxibunny said. You can see a load of examples of using pygame by following the 'Python Games' icon on the 'Big Raspberry' desktop.

[KenT]

If you want a windows, menus dialog box type gui then Tkinter is a good starting place. It is said to be a little dated and obscelecent but perfectly adequate for simple projects. It has python bindings, is ready installed in Pi and has good documentation at http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/tkinter-index.htm

Idle is written using Tkinter.

[gkreidl]

If you want a windows, menus dialog box type gui then Tkinter is a good starting place. It is said to be a little dated and obscelecent but perfectly adequate for simple projects. It has python bindings, is ready installed in Pi and has good documentation at http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/tkinter-index.htm

Idle is written using Tkinter.

And another very good documentation can be found here:
http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/t ... index.html