python GUI

hey /prog/,

so a local business owner in my neibhorhood is having me write a program for a "order taking machine". basically a touchscreen computer that allows employees to create an invoice for phone orders, and automatically generate invoices for web orders.

im writing the whole back end in python, but ive never written a GUI, let alone a GUI with a touch interface. i see the are numerous frameworks for python and im thinking of using kivi because its cross platform, and it has built in functions for touch.


do you think im going in the right direction? any advice from seasoned python/GUI programmers?


tl;dr looking for the best way to write a "touch" GUI in python

Get Visual Studio 2010 and quickly knock up some forms, you'll save time and thus save money.

pygtk you faggot i hate you

>>2
but..but..i was really wanting to do this in python..

sadly...Visual Studio yeah...

>>5
well, visual studio is great and all, but i dont want to have to write this in C++. thats why im asking for a python GUI toolkit. so nobody has any experience in python GUIs?

>>6
VB.NET

>>7
i hate you.

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Python + Qt + QML

What did you expect? You're on /prog/. Every asshole here thinks using command line arguments are so much easier than GUIs. So no, no one on /prog/ has ever written anything with a GUI. I'm so bad at GUIs I wrote a GUI in AutoIt that just called a Perl script when they hit a button.

GUIs are retarded and painful. FIOC is even worse.

Just write programs that do one thing well and handle text streams because they are a universal interface.

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>>11
I'm so bad at GUIs I wrote a GUI in AutoIt that just called a Perl script when they hit a button.
thats fucking brilliant. i love autoit.

If Kivi fits your use-case/requirements and the project is mature enough to be stable, then use it.

Make sure you separate your scalable enterprise modules from your business logic and backend, though.

>>12
I generally agree with that, but not every program can be reduced to a series of filters. As much as possible, though, I do try to do that, but it doesn't really work with

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