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maaarcooose,

An other option that might be worth considering is QT. It is multi-platform and has an IDE which is very similar to VB. Completely free.

Ironfist

maaarcooose wrote:

I'm currently considering options with regards to a reprogram for cross platform possibilities.
At the moment my best candidate is python using a nice cross platform toolkit.

Any good recommendations of a cross platform GUI toolkit for python?

!m!

Well, there is wxPython http://www.wxpython.org/ . . . . should do the job, if you accept the mission.

I'm having a look at both options at the moment.

I suspect I may end up going with wxPython as I've been looking for some sort of project to get me using python, but I'm not discounting QT either.
Using python I suspect it will be a little easier to make cross platform and my C++ skills have never been amazing. A feww simple command line utils here and there.

It is possible with python to make an installer package for your program that includes runtimes and such, or do you have to get people to install python. I'm maionly talking about windows boxes because most Linux boxes will already have Python available and MacOS has it installed by default (doesn't it?)

!m!

maaarcooose wrote:

It is possible with python to make an installer package for your program that includes runtimes and such, or do you have to get people to install python. I'm maionly talking about windows boxes because most Linux boxes will already have Python available and MacOS has it installed by default (doesn't it?)

Yes it is. The Debug Console for Windows we distribute for Oolite is a Python program built as a standalone exe. If this is possible, then it should be also possible to generate an installer.

maaarcooose wrote:

I'm maionly talking about windows boxes because most Linux boxes will already have Python available and MacOS has it installed by default (doesn't it?)

I think you are right. As far as I can see it is part of the default instal on MacOS. There are even two versions on my mac. Default is Python 2.6.1 but there is also a version 2.5.4 for some reason.
And when you install the developer package from the installation disk (not installed by default) you get a program that can convert a python script into an applet.

Looks like wxPython wins.

I begin my training.

Internet Sensei, Onegai shimasu.

!m!

Just FYI, there are also python bindings for QT: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt