Re: [Anygui-devel] On AnyGUI Core
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From: Peter D. <pd...@gm...> - 2005-08-08 08:53:00
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On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:41:27 +0300, Magnus Lie Hetland <ma...@he...> wrote: > Peter Damoc <pd...@gm...>: [snip] >> As a programmer I would like to have is an OSS python GUI toolkit >> that looks great everywhere and acts the same on all platforms >> without custom hack in the app code. > > I agree. Nowadays I think wxPython and PyQt seem like promising > candidates, actually. wxPython rocks! it is the best OSS has to offer right now (personal opinion) > One option to look out for in the future is Greg's PyGUI: > > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui I will take another look at this. :) > [snip] >> Now to the real question of this email. >> What should a crazy enough person do to try and build such a >> toolkit? How could he reuse the work that went into AnyGUI? > > Hm. Much of the code (and blood, sweat and tears) of Anygui deals with > the front-end/back-end stuff -- and if you want to implement the > actual GUI stuff yourself, I guess you could just scrap all that. If > you want to keep this mechanism, you could probably build on what's > there... > > But if you don't want a pure-Python layer that sits on top of other > packages (not sure if you do or not ;) -- why not simply use a > packages such as wxPython? It seems to have the BDFLs blessing, so... > I am a wxPython user! for the past 18 months I've used nothing else, however it feels "heavy". The simple HelloWorld is around 11-12 Mb when packaged with py2exe. Peter. |