[nycbug-talk] script gui

[pete wright]

On Apr 5, 2005 3:17 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:32 PM, pete wright wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 5, 2005 12:15 PM, steve Rieger <steve at n2sw.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> am working on a personal thing, and i would like to make a sexy gui
> >> for
> >> a script i have, this script asks the user questions and based on the
> >> answers it inserts data into a mysql db.i would like this gui/frontend
> >> to be cross platform, which rules out a few langs, can you folks
> >> recommend the pros and cons of what my options are,
> >> a few that come to mind are ruby, python, java etc....
> >>
> >
> > my personal favorite right now is python.  the qt bindings are pretty
> > great if you are working on a *nix machine (not sure about osX and
> > win32 gui bindings sorry).  the only other scripting lang. i have gui
> > experience with is perl...and it hurt.  compared to python atleast ;)
> > for example I worked on an app here that we used the qt gui designer
> > to build the interface, which then exported an XML file that python
> > can just slurp up.  it was quick, easy and quite responsive as well.
> 
> Qt is only available for Windows commercially.

I was hoping you would reply :)  I'm not totally familiar with Qt's
commercial liscense.  Is this if you want to redistribute software? 
If I build software using the QT bindings for Unix hosts I would
assume one does not require a commercial liscense.


-pete

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