Re: [Anygui-users] anygui.backend()

[Magnus L. H. <ma...@he...>]

Boulet Stephen-CSB046 <Ste...@mo...>:
>
> Is the anygui.backend() function supposed to report all available backends or just a default one?
> 
> I have tk, wx, and msw available, and msw is the only one reported reported (anygui 0.1; python 2.2).
 
Hi!

The backend function simply tells you which backend is currently in
use. msw is the default whenever it is available. If you want
something else, use ANYGUI_WISHLIST.

The way you're doing things in the code example won't really work.
Importing the backend directly is necessary to tell wrappers (like
py2exe) which modules they need to include, but won't override the
automatic backend selection (unfortunately). To do that, you'll have
to set ANYGUI_WISHLIST (as an environment variable) to the backend you
wish to use. This is considered a flaw (noted briefly in KNOWN_BUGS)
and will be fixed in release 0.2, where you won't need environment
variables at all.

> Thanks.
> 
> -- Stephen

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