Cliff Wells wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:38 -0800, iain duncan wrote: > >> Hi folks, I am just wetting my feet with pylons. I am curious whether >> anyone on here has experience integrating desktop apps with pylons >> projects, and if so, would they care to share opinions on feasability, >> when it is worth, how it went, how they did so? >> > > I discussed this on the TurboGears-dev list a while back (and Pylons > should be no different in this regard): > > A while back I built a TurboGears app that utilized XRC (see > http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/UsingXmlResources) templates that > wxPython can render as GUI elements. The "main" application (compiled > as an .exe) was little more than a bootstrap loader that downloaded a > zipfile of Python modules from the TG server and then rendered each > "page" of the GUI via XRC. Aside from the initial downloading of the > Python modules, it worked more or less like a web application: whenever > a new "page" was needed, it fetched the XRC description from the server > and rendered it. It worked great, giving all the advantages of a web > app (centralized administration and ubiquitous access) and all the > benefits of a GUI app (sophisticated UI controls and local system > integration). Further, because all the database access was done via > normal HTTP (I used pycurl), the GUI app was well-insulated from the > underlying implementation and much of the server-side code was reusable > for an actual web application as well (the GUI served as the > administrative interface for controlling a public-facing website). > > Were I to do it again (and I'm sure I will) I'd probably use > > http://techgame.net/projects/Framework/wiki/ > I checked out the framework and nothing has been done with it in a while and the list has been quite for over a year. Do you know if the project is active? Jose
> rather than plain XRC, however. > > Regards, > Cliff > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
