On 8/5/2011 2:05 PM, Irmen de Jong said this: > On 05-08-11 19:53, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> I have a task where I want to create pretty simple one page visual >> interfaces (Graphical or Text, but it needs to run across Windows, >> Cygwin, Linux,*BSD, OSX ...). These interfaces are nothing more >> than option checklists and text fields. Conceptually something like: >> >> Please Select Your Installation Options: >> >> Windows Compatibility Services _ >> Linux Compatibility Services _ >> TRS-DOS Compatibility Services _ >> >> What Is Your email Address: _______________________ >> >> What I'm looking for is a way to describe such forms in a text >> file that can then be fed into a tool to generate the necessary >> pyGUI, Tkinter, (or whatever) code. The idea is that it should >> be simple to generate a basic interface like this and have it >> only record the user's input. Thereafter, the python code >> would act on the basis of those selection without any further >> connection to the GUI. >> >> An added bonus would be a similar kind of thing for generating >> web interfaces to do this. This might actually be a better model >> because then I only have to worry about a single presentation >> environment. >> >> Ideas anyone? > > Yeah, HTML being the text file and a web browser being the tool to transform > it into a GUI... > > You can hook this up with a simple web server or web framework running > locally to grab the submitted form results when the form is complete and > process them in a piece of python code. > > Wouldn't that work? > > > Irmen
Yup, although I'd probably use a central apache instance. But I'm still curious ... is there a way to do this with a full GUI tool on a thick client? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
