Talin wrote: > Qt, Java Swing, and .Net Windows.Forms are all examples of what I would > consider "good" API designs. All three of them are powerful, > comprehensive, and have relatively clean APIs. I would be perfectly > satisfied to have the equivalent of any one of them in the Python space.
But none of them have been designed with Python in mind. In my experience, from a Python perspective, most GUI toolkit APIs are needlessly complicated due to deficiencies in the underlying language, such as lack of keyword arguments, or properties, or introspection, or duck typing, etc. By standing back and re-thinking the design Pythonically, many things can be made much simpler. > (Just so you know where I am coming from - I think I've used almost two > dozen different UI frameworks over the years, not counting the half > dozen or so I've created for different employers I've been messing with GUI toolkits for quite a number of years too, both using and writing them. People have been asking "Why not copy an existing design?" Well, I *have* been -- just not any single one. PyGUI is a distillation of all that I've found to be good in my GUI experience, plus some ideas of my own, and infused with a good dose of Pythonicity. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
