> > For serveral years, I have been looking for a way to migrate away from > desktop GUI/client-server programming onto the browser based network > computing model of programming. Unfortunately, up until recently, > browser based programs are very limited - due to the limitation of > HTML itself. Eventhough PythonCard hasn't keep up with the latest > widgets in wxpython, the programs so created still works a lot better > - until now. > > If you look at programs at some of the major sites these days - like > Google calendar, Netflix, blockbuster, and so forth - you would > undoubtedly notice that the quality of the programs are pretty much at > par with the desktop programs we use everyday. Since the curious mind > wanted to know how these programs are done, I started investigating > and found out that what a difference a few years have made to > Javascript - the once much hated beast of the Internet age - and > during my search for perfection, I found Qooxdoo (http:// > qooxdoo.org/). > > Qooxdoo is a Javascript toolkit that sits on top of Ajax. Take a look > at some of the *impressive* widgets > at http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/showcase/#Form. > > So, what's that got to do with Pythoncard? Read on. > > After trying for a few days learning Qooxdoo, my head really really > hurts. Getting too old to learn this stuff, I was mumbling. > > Then I looked some more. I found QxTransformer (http:// > sites.google.com/a/qxtransformer.org/qxtransformer/Home) which is a > XSLT toolkit that creats XML code that invoke qooxdoo. > > So, what's that got to do with Pythoncard? Read on. > > After trying for a few days learning QxTransformer, my head really > really hurts. Getting too old to learn > this stuff, I was mumbling. > > I want Pythoncard. > > Damn Pythoncard! Once you got hooked, everything else looks > impossibly complicated and unproductive. > > But then I looked closer. It turns out the XML file created by > QxTransformer is *very* similar in structure when compared to the > resource files used in PythonCard. Since there are no GUI builders > for QxTransformer, and I can't affort to buy the one for Qooxdoo > (Java! Yuk!), I decided to roll up my sleeves, took the Pythoncard's > Layout Manager and modified it and created my own "Poor Man's Qooxdoo > GUI Layout Designer". > > The result? See the partially completed application at: > > http://test.powersystemadvisors.com/ > > and the same application running from the desktop: > > http://test.powersystemadvisors.com/desktopHelloWorld.jpg > > It shouldn't be long before I can fill in the gaps and have the GUI > builder maps the rest of the Pythoncard widgets to Qooxdoo widgets. > Once I've done that, I can have the same application running from the > desktop, or from the browser. And it shouldn't take more than minutes > to create such applications. > > Welcome to the modernized world of Pythoncard!!!
Any reason you chose qooxdoo over ext.js? Cheers, Daniel
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