Python GUI with custom render/drawing

Question

I am looking for a Python GUI library that I can rewrite the rendering / drawing.

It has to support basic widgets (buttons, combo boxes, list boxes, text editors, scrolls,), layout management, event handling

The thing that I am looking for is to use my custom Direct3D and OpenGL renderer for all of the GUI's drawing / rendering.

edit suggested by S.Lott: I need to use this GUI for a 3D editor, since I have to drag and drop a lot of things from the GUI elements to the 3d render area, I wanted to use a GUI system that renders with Direct3D (preffered) or OpenGL. It also has to have a nice look. It is difficult to achieve this with GUI's like WPF, since WPF does not have a handle. Also it needs to be absolutly free for commercial use.

edit: I would also like to use the rendering context I initialized for the 3d part in my application

Answer 1

I don't know what are you working at, so maybe this is not what you're looking for, but: Have you considered using Blender + its Game Engine?

It supports Python scripting, and provides some APIs to create "standard" GUIs too, while allowing you to do a lot of cool stuff with 3d models. This could be especially useful if your application does a lot of 3d models manipulation..

Then you can "compile" it (it just builds the all-in-one package containing all the dependencies, in a way similar to what py2exe does) for any platform you need.

Answer 2

You can use Qt Scene Framework with OpenGL rendering. There are many examples on Nokia site.

Answer 3

The best Python GUI toolkit is wxPython (also known as wxWidgets).

This is not merely my opinion, see also: wxPython quotes

wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. -- Guido van Rossum

I can't say how easy or hard it would be to add your own renderer.