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I always had the impression that WxWidgets is obsolete and dying. Nice to see it still active. Out of curiosity, any big or important software written in WxPyt

by dotdi 9y ago

I always had the impression that WxWidgets is obsolete and dying. Nice to see it still active. Out of curiosity, any big or important software written in WxPython?

acidburnNSA 9y ago
Not answering the real question but we have a lot of little wxPython GUIs driving big engineering design software suites at the advanced nuclear design company I work at. Engineers (mechanical, nuclear, etc.) can grasp it fairly quickly, get their knobs on the screen, and be back to doing their mechanical and nuclear engineering. We got started because the original python guy (me) learned it from a grad student in 2005 via the excellent wx docs and demos collection of examples. Works great and we recently went all Python 3.
- dotdi 9y ago
  I realized it's a great tool for quick prototyping, especially internal software, but I was wondering if anybody took it beyond that.
  - dagw 9y ago
    Not that I know of. Here is a list from the wxPython homepage: https://wiki.wxpython.org/wxPythonPit%20Apps https://wiki.wxpython.org/wxPythonPit%20Apps As you can see much of the list is either 'toy' applications or older applications that haven't been updated for ages.
    - bklaasen 9y ago
      Chandler is on that list! That's the failed PIM desktop software that Mitch Kapor financed as a hobby project and which was the subject of the book "Dreaming in Code"by Scott Rosenberg. Terrific book, shame about the software.
- dagw 9y ago
  Matches my experience very well. A few jobs ago I was developing in house apps using WxPython at a civil engineering company.
bandrami 9y ago
It's big in music and math for some reason; Maxima's main front-end is wx, GNUplot uses it, and a whole bunch of sequencers use it. Also the vanilla eMule and BitTorrent gui clients.
vram22 9y ago
I read a while ago that Dropbox desktop clients are written in wxPython, and maybe on all of Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Don't have a citation right now.
photojosh 9y ago
Not sure if you meant only in wxPython or wxWidgets as well, but a big one that is mainly in C++ but also provides Python scripting is KiCad: http://kicad.org http://kicad.org

by dotdi 9y ago

I always had the impression that WxWidgets is obsolete and dying. Nice to see it still active. Out of curiosity, any big or important software written in WxPython?

acidburnNSA 9y ago

Not answering the real question but we have a lot of little wxPython GUIs driving big engineering design software suites at the advanced nuclear design company I work at. Engineers (mechanical, nuclear, etc.) can grasp it fairly quickly, get their knobs on the screen, and be back to doing their mechanical and nuclear engineering. We got started because the original python guy (me) learned it from a grad student in 2005 via the excellent wx docs and demos collection of examples. Works great and we recently went all Python 3.

dotdi 9y ago
I realized it's a great tool for quick prototyping, especially internal software, but I was wondering if anybody took it beyond that.
- dagw 9y ago
  Not that I know of. Here is a list from the wxPython homepage: https://wiki.wxpython.org/wxPythonPit%20Apps https://wiki.wxpython.org/wxPythonPit%20Apps As you can see much of the list is either 'toy' applications or older applications that haven't been updated for ages.
  - bklaasen 9y ago
    Chandler is on that list! That's the failed PIM desktop software that Mitch Kapor financed as a hobby project and which was the subject of the book "Dreaming in Code"by Scott Rosenberg. Terrific book, shame about the software.
dagw 9y ago
Matches my experience very well. A few jobs ago I was developing in house apps using WxPython at a civil engineering company.

bandrami 9y ago

It's big in music and math for some reason; Maxima's main front-end is wx, GNUplot uses it, and a whole bunch of sequencers use it. Also the vanilla eMule and BitTorrent gui clients.

vram22 9y ago

I read a while ago that Dropbox desktop clients are written in wxPython, and maybe on all of Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Don't have a citation right now.

photojosh 9y ago

Not sure if you meant only in wxPython or wxWidgets as well, but a big one that is mainly in C++ but also provides Python scripting is KiCad: http://kicad.org http://kicad.org