Re: On AnyGUI Core

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:41:27 +0300, Magnus Lie Hetland =20
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Peter Damoc <[email protected]>:
[snip]
>> As a programmer I would like to have is an OSS python GUI toolkit
>> that  looks great everywhere and acts the same on all platforms
>> without custom  hack in the app code.
>
> I agree. Nowadays I think wxPython and PyQt seem like promising
> candidates, actually.

wxPython rocks! it is the best OSS has to offer right now (personal =20
opinion)

> One option to look out for in the future is Greg's PyGUI:
>
>   http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui

I will take another look at this. :)

> [snip]
>> Now to the real question of this email.
>> What should a crazy enough person do to try and build such a
>> toolkit? How could he reuse the work that went into AnyGUI?
>
> Hm. Much of the code (and blood, sweat and tears) of Anygui deals with
> the front-end/back-end stuff -- and if you want to implement the
> actual GUI stuff yourself, I guess you could just scrap all that. If
> you want to keep this mechanism, you could probably build on what's
> there...
>
> But if you don't want a pure-Python layer that sits on top of other
> packages (not sure if you do or not ;) -- why not simply use a
> packages such as wxPython? It seems to have the BDFLs blessing, so...
>

I am a wxPython user! for the past 18 months I've used nothing else, =20
however it feels "heavy".
The simple HelloWorld is around 11-12 Mb when packaged with py2exe.

Peter.



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