Re: [orca-list] Most accessible Python GUI toolkit

[Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk>]

Thanks Andrew.

I'm guessing Wx will be better on Linux due to using GTK rather than QT 
as its underlying rendering system but I'm not sure.

Regards,

Nick


On 11/10/2018 23:06, Andrew Hart wrote:
> For what it's worth, I have played with wxPython 3.? and PyQt5 under
> Windows and they both work pretty well. Imho, Wx tends to work a bit
> better. I suspect that being such an old framework, it simply exposes
> everything as Windows 95/98/me/xp used to and leaves the screen reader
> to build the off-screen model by hooking its tentacles as much as
> possible into the OS. This is mere speculation and I could be wrong. As
> far as I know, Qt5 uses MSAA in Windows and the AT-SPI stack in Linux.
> Personally, I find Qt5 to be a bit nicer to work with codewise than Wx.
> Its event signalling system is just plain simpler.
>
> I haven't tested either on Linux however.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
>
> On 11/10/2018 16:49, Nick Wood wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is a question for any Python developers:
> >
> > I need to build a new cross-platform (Linux/Mac/Windows) Python app and
> > would like to use the most accessible GUI toolkit.
> >
> > I've used pygobject before on Linux for GTK, but this isn't easily
> > ported to Windows.
> >
> > Should Tkinter work with Orca? All the Tkinter demo apps I try are
> > completely silent.
> >
> > Also what about WxPython?
> >
> > Any help or experience in this area would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nick
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