AnyGUI/Narya Client

Terry Hancock <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:20:15 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.anygui.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi All,
I just joined the list, and I think I'd probably like to help with at least a 
couple of backends for AnyGUI.   So, I'm looking for where to start.

My motivation is this:

In my proposal about Python Browser Clients:
http://www.anansispaceworks.net/NaryaInfo/client_html
I referred to "Tkinter", but I wonder if substituting AnyGUI would make my 
job easier.

To run in popular stock browsers like Netscape 4.x or IE 5, I'll need to run 
in Jython/Java-1 (not Java-2), which has AWT, but not Swing. I've heard Swing 
will run on Java-1, though, so I'm wondering if it's possible to delivering 
it with my applet instead of relying on it to be included with the 
interpreter.  Is that even possible?  Or should I be focusing on a ground-up 
implementation using only AWT?

I think I'm also going to need to develop an SDL/PyGame based backend if I 
want to follow this up.  Less sure about that part, though.

I also noted the PyUI project -- which sounds like it might be faster to 
write a backend (renderer) for, especially in the environments I'm talking 
about.  Would that make more sense perhaps? (I note that a PyUI backend for 
AnyGUI is "planned" but not working).

So is there some kind of "Start Here" for someone who wants to implement a 
new (or extend an old) backend for AnyGUI?

Thanks for any pointers,
Terry

--
Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks  http://www.anansispaceworks.com


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