[Pyobjc-dev] Re: Pyobjc-dev digest, Vol 1 #373 - 3 msgs

[Gary R. <gro...@tr...>]

I thought this was interesting. too bad GnuStep's PyObjC connection is
languishing or it might have provided a quicker path to x-platform.

--Gary


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> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 18:02:25 -0400
> From: Bob Ippolito <bo...@re...>
> To: pyo...@li...
> Subject: [Pyobjc-dev] GNUStep Renaissance - rocks in PyObjC!
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> GNUStep Renaissance ( http://www.gnustep.it/Renaissance/ ) is basically
> a very terse XML way of describing interfaces, as a cross-platform
> replacement for nib files.  It works perfectly in PyObjC (even outlets
> seem to work with AutoBaseClass and such).  Although I don't
> particularly care about cross-platform at this point, it's very useful
> for dynamically defining an interface.
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> Basically what I'm doing with a friend of mine is adding a drawer to
> DrawBot, where the drawer's contents are defined dynamically by the
> Python code.  What this drawer will be used for is taking the constants
> out of the code and assigning them to sliders, checkboxes, color wells,
> etc.  I spent a few hours looking around for how to create Cocoa
> interfaces by hand, and it seems entirely possible, but I couldn't find
> out how to do the automatic layout stuff.  Renaissance, which I found
> from a mailing list post on Google when poking around for nib-less
> Cocoa information, solves this problem elegantly and easily from
> PyObjC, especially because constructing XML from Python is cake.  I'm
> just starting the implementation, so I don't know if I'll have to
> modify Renaissance for my purposes (hopefully not), but I'm extremely
> pleased so far and I figured this was worth pointing out.
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> -bob
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