Re: gtk or pygtk

["Alexandre Moreira" <alexandream gmail com>]

On 6/14/07, Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 02:45 -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote:
> > hi
> > i want to know whether gtk
> > is better or pygtk is better
> >
> > in terms of programming, execution time etc.
>
> You're asking the wrong question.  What I think you're asking is, which
> is a better language to use for GTK development? C or Python?  Or C++
> (GTKmm) or Java (Java-gnome)?  That's not really a GTK-specific
> question; it's more of a language preference question.
>
> In my opinion, Python is the only way to fly for building the GUI
> components of apps.  The cpu-intensive things probably need to be done
> in C or C++. Fortunately with Python it is very easy to mix C and Python
> code.  Using GTK in Python (with the pygtk bindings) is very nice.
>
> That said, GTK development in straight C is actually not bad at all.
> GTK's structure is very object-oriented and easy to use.

Exactly. If you can keep up with the weird syntax and understand what
is going on with pointer-intensive C code, I guess you'll do pretty
well with C Gtk+. I like it better than other bindings, but that is a
matter of taste.

I believe you should check other options too, Gtkmm seems to be pretty
good for C++ programmers and I heard good things of Gtk# if you don't
mind using the Mono runtime.

That said, keep in mind that the amount of code needed to write basic
stuff in C Gtk+ is pretty big, so you would be happy to write or have
a few boiler-plate generator scripts (take a look at GOB2 and spuug).

Regards,
Alexandre Moreira.

> >
> >
> > thanks
>
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