If you want to build desktop GUIs, Python is right candidate to pick. It offers you plethora of GUI libraries compared to any other language. So, there are high number of chances that, some library in there fits your bill which is readily available, in whole of lot of GUI libs python has to offer. Following is a list of some of the popular GUI libs
(Complete list of available libraries can be found on python wiki page.)
All of the above mentioned ones are cross-platform capable libraries. So, that you don’t have to rewrite any part of your GUI and gladly run it across all the main contenders Windows, Linux and Mac . There are other platform specific ones like win32gui , WinForms using IronPython. But, it helps to stick with cross-platform capable libs to avoid extra work when building your app for other platforms.
Over the next few posts I’ll present you with examples of simple hello world programs using above mentioned list of libraries.
Usually the best way to build your GUI application is to write compute intensive part (if there is any ) of your business logic in low level languages like C/C++ and then write GUI code using the above mentioned Python libs. This saves you lot of time and energy. As, compared to low level languages, in Python you get the benefit of automatic memory management and you only have to write less number of lines of code.
Desktop GUIs are on decline with the advent of web. More and more programs are being coded as services using web technologies ( HTML, CSS, JavaScript ). It has gotten so far, now UI/GUI by default means web UI. Each passing day web technologies are filling up the gap in terms of number of features (Dynamic content, Media capabilities ) . But, desktop GUIs still have their place in certain areas and there are numerous programs already written using desktop GUI technologies that needs to be managed.
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