Re: Re: PyGUI and Prothon

Samir Patel wrote:

> I will love to see support for wxWidgets, but there are only 4 months
> between now and your propose month for 1.0 release (10/2004).  Do you
> think, this will be accomplished within this timeframe?

I would rather be aggressive and miss a schedule or two.  I don't know if
you've noticed but I've bitten off a lot on this project.  So far I haven't
had to eat any words.  I'm not going to make the beginning of July for the
freezing of the language but it's not going to be August either.

I will kill myself making sure these things come to life.  I really want all
the great ideas to happen, not just end up as wild ideas in dead messages in
the mailing list archives.  I'm keeping a list of message archive url's for
things like the CPAN library idea, the stackless features etc.  I'm not
going to let these things fall into the cracks.

As long as you guys stick around to help me shape up the details and
hopefully eventually help code these things, I'll bust my butt doing this.

> You should
> also look at pythoncard and wax (both are wrapper to wxPython) since
> wxPython is overly complicated than needs to.

That is one reason I'm optimistic about the schedule.  As always I'd like to
make the Prothon wrapper simpler than wxPython.  I have an idea to have the
wxWidgets main loop run in a dedicated thread and only control it via proxy
objects.  These objects could be designed to look and behave exactly the way
we want.