On 8/5/2011 5:51 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
On Aug 5, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 8/5/2011 3:42 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
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
I want to take a text definition file that looks something this:
Title "Please Select Your Installation Options:"
Checkbox "Windows Compatibility Services"
Checkbox "Linux Compatibility Services"
Checkbox "TRS-DOS Compatibility Services"
Inputbox "What Is Your email Address:"
And have that aut-generate the GUI interface described above for the
selected GUI toolkit and/or an equivalent HTML page.
I know I can write a program to do this, but it seems that someone else
may have already solved this problem.
Oh, I see. I didn't realize you were looking for a most canned solution. I
agree that it's a problem that's been solved many times.
I've used Mako before as an HTML templating engine, but ISTR that it points out
that it's agnostic to what it's templating. In other words, it only cares about
what's between the Mako escape tags, it doesn't care if the surrounding text is
HTML or XML or Python or whatever.
So you could have a Mako template that consists mostly of Python code that
builds a wxPython window (if wxPython is your cup of tea) and then some Mako
commands in the middle that reads your text definition file and adds
checkboxes, textboxes, etc. as appropriate. It's not a canned solution, but it
does allow you to separate the boilerplate stuff from the variants.
Hope this helps
Philip
Something like this is more what I had in mind (but this seems to
not be actively supported????):
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
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