Python and GUI

[Ed Leafe]

Re: Python and GUI

On May 26, 2007, at 3:17 PM, rzed wrote:

If there were a standard Python GUI API (call it the PGA,
say) that be the target for app developers, they wouldn't have to
worry about the back end. The PGA would have to be flexible enough
to handle incompatibiliti es among the various approaches to
displaying widgets and text.

FWIW, this has been a design goal of Dabo from Day One. While we
currently wrap only wxPython, the ui module is not tied to it. We
have standardized on a syntax for control names, property names,
etc., that is independent of wxPython, and then is implemented in the
ui.uiwx module. Throughout Dabo, the only place where you will ever
see "import wx" is in the ui.uiwx module; when you write Dabo UI
code, you never need to import wx; instead, you write to the Dabo
uiapi. The same will be true when we get around to wrapping Tkinter,
Qt, etc.

-- Ed Leafe
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[Matt van de Werken]

Re: Python and GUI

brad wrote:

Kevin Walzer wrote:
>

>2. wxPython is big, harder to learn than Tkinter, but looks good on
>Mac, Windows, and *Nix. It will require users to install a lot of
>extra stuff (or you'll have to bundle the extra stuff).

>
PyInstaller builds binaries beautifully from raw py source. No need to
bundle the wx stuff. I develop on Linux, build on Windows (with
PyInstaller) and it works great. The source runs on any platform, the
Windows binaries is neat for the point and click users.
>

Hi Brad:

This is my preferred method of development, but I am a newcomer to
python having lived in the C world for a long time.

Have you any experience with this development method using boa
constructor as the GUI builder?

Cheers,
mvdw