Re: OK, everyone...

On Monday 16 February 2004 07:29 am, Alex Martelli wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2004 02:00 pm, Laura Creighton wrote:
>=20
> 1. people who want to program a GUI that will run on Classic Python, jy=
thon,
>     and IronPython (or other variants on Python for dotNet) -- no curre=
nt
>     toolkit, I think, does reasonable abstraction covering all of wx an=
d/or
>     Qt, Awt and/or Swing, and WindowsForm;
>=20
> 2. similarly, people who want to have a "normal" GUI _and_ an HTML/Dyna=
mic
>     HTML version thereof for running on browsers;
>=20
> 3. even obscurer needs connected to running GUIs on (e.g.) embedded dev=
ices
>     with PyGame, cellphones, text-only connections, Flash, DVD menus, .=
..
>=20
> After all, it's=20
> debatable whether it's _sensible_ to want to code a GUI only once for (=
e.g.)=20
> a smart cellphone's 128 x 128 (if that) screen, a web browser, and a=20
> reasonably sized computer and screen

Nevertheless, that's more or less why I'm still on this list.  I don't wa=
nt to
spend a lot of time rewriting front ends, but there are applications I wi=
ll
want to be highly portable/flexible.  AnyGUI seems like the "right" way
to do that.

I think it's still the Jython/Python cross-platform issue that has the gr=
eatest
relevance for me.  One reason is that as a practical matter, I might want
to see a Jython version of my software available, but given the non-free
nature of the Java (and Swing in particular) it's very undesireable to tr=
ap
myself in Jython.  It would be so much better if the same code would
just run transparently on a C Python platform.

I'm still a bit away from being able to spend time on such a thing, but I
might be able to pick up some slack in a month or so, at least as regards
testing specific cases of Jython/Python apps for compatibility.

The other issue, of course, is that I will want graphics as well as "widg=
ets",
so there will need to be a portable "canvas" type object. Last time I
looked at AnyGUI that part wasn't figured out yet.

Cheers,
Terry

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


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