Re: OK, everyone...

On 17/02/2004, at 10:33 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Magnus:
>
>> But I keep getting emails from people who say that Anygui is a
>> "Good Idea(tm)"
>
> Perhaps those are the people who want an API that's small, simple and
> Pythonic, as opposed to big, complicated and warped in the direction
> of some other language such as C++ or Tcl.
>
> That's the goal of my own Python GUI project (which I *am* still
> working on, by the way, despite appearances to the contrary!).
>
> My goals aren't quite the same as AnyGUI's, because I only intend to
> provide *one* implementation for each platform, preferably built as
> directly as possible on whatever is provided natively, so that users
> don't have to install any extra packages.
>

yeah, I agree about having an (extremely) simple UI interface (and I 
mean that, a User Interface Interface!), and I actually, as a basis for 
Anygui/beosgui wrote a wrapper around each of the BeOS API classes, 
doing things like giving them decent defaults, and subclassing them 
(rather, superclassing them, I suppose).  It actually meant I could 
write a GUI wrapper for a program with about 5 lines, including window, 
buttons, textbox, labels/textareas.  (maybe a slight exaggeration, but 
the programming was the main bit, not the gui coding).

Now, if I can see if I can find the simplegui.py files I created in a 
backup somewhere, since I wiped clean all of the hard disks connected 
to my old mac in order to try and sell her...

Matt.
-- 
Matt Schinckel <[email protected]>



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