On Aug 5, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > 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?
Hi Tim This looks pretty straightforward to me; maybe I'm missing something. It doesn't look trivial, but the steps seem pretty clear. Is there some part in particular that's giving you trouble? Cheers Philip >> >> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
