On 6/14/07, Michael L Torrie <torriem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
