Terry Reedy wrote: > "Greg Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Terry Reedy wrote: >> >>> -the ability to ignore platforn standards and give an app a unique look >>> and >>> feel. A start on this, for instance, is being able to give dialog boxes >>> a >>> custom background instead of uniform gray or whatever. > > I should note first that I have no particular expectation that PyGUI will > meet my wish list. >
I'm not an expert on any of this, but I like the idea of PyGUI, but I would prefer if it were based on lower-level interfaces. I've liked the concept that enthought's enable toolkit introduced me to (and they have made several strides in this direction). Just get a window-area from each platform's lowest-level tool and then draw your widgets to the screen directly. Capture events using the platform's lowest-level interface as well. Then you have a truly cross-platform toolkit written using Python itself with speed critical sections in C. Naturally one could borrow from the toolkits already out there to do a lot of it. I think people interested in this area should really check out Enthought's enable toolkit to see if there is anything of value there. I like the concept of low-level binding, but I don't know if they've actually achieved that. I'm really not qualified to argue the points, but if there were a cross-platform toolkit that was not just a wrapper of a wrapper of a wrapper over some underlying toolkit, then that would be the toolkit I would choose. The thing that bothers me most about all of Python's GUI toolkits is that they are almost always wrappers of wrappers of wrappers... I suspect you could start by just interfacing with the "platform-default" toolkits MFC, Cocoa, Gnome, and KDE (using ctypes for example) and then using an approach similar to PyGUI to wrap them all up using standard calls. I personally like the idea of a cross-platform default toolkit that is written with Python not just a wrapper of Tk or wxWindows. -Travis Oliphant _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
