X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/bd330a69c9555c29c6fc448a61e58e0d49402c47..05dedde7d01d55cde7f13f6b6201e24b5b408344:/docs/latex/wx/wxPython.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/wxPython.tex b/docs/latex/wx/wxPython.tex index 3fc2ec8568..7b0fd6b027 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/wxPython.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/wxPython.tex @@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ wxPython is a Python package that can be imported at runtime that includes a collection of Python modules and an extension module (native code). It provides a series of Python classes that mirror (or shadow) many of the wxWindows GUI classes. This extension module -attempts to mirror the class heirarchy of wxWindows as closely as +attempts to mirror the class hierarchy of wxWindows as closely as possible. This means that there is a wxFrame class in wxPython that looks, smells, tastes and acts almost the same as the wxFrame class in the C++ version. -wxPython is very versitile. It can be used to create standalone GUI +wxPython is very versatile. It can be used to create standalone GUI applications, or in situations where Python is embedded in a C++ application as an internal scripting or macro language. @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ details about getting wxPython working for you. So why would you want to use wxPython over just C++ and wxWindows? Personally I prefer using Python for everything. I only use C++ when I -absolutely have to eek more performance out of an algorithm, and even +absolutely have to eke more performance out of an algorithm, and even then I usually code it as an extension module and leave the majority of the program in Python. @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ There are other GUI solutions out there for Python. \wxheading{Tkinter} -Tkinter is the defacto standard GUI for Python. It is available +Tkinter is the de facto standard GUI for Python. It is available on nearly every platform that Python and Tcl/TK are. Why Tcl/Tk? Well because Tkinter is just a wrapper around Tcl's GUI toolkit, Tk. This has its upsides and its downsides...