Dethe Elza wrote: > On 4/10/06, Gábor Farkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi, >> >> i'd like to write a simple python-mac application, >> for which i need to choose a gui toolkit. > > The primary GUI toolkit for Mac-specific work is to use Cocoa via the > PyObjC bridge. > > http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/ > >> the problem is that i need to be able to enter japanese text, >> for example with tkinter it is not possible. > > I imagine that Tkinter works if you use the system input methods, but > I haven't tested it.
i tried. i simply cut&pasted a small Tkinter program with a textfield (Entry object) from a webpage and tried it. but it was not able to "accept" japanese characters. > >> i know that using pyobjc and doing directly cocoa would work, >> but last time i checked it it seemed quite complicated. > > What was complicated about it? It's hard to help without further information. sorry. i should have written it more specifically. all those "objc-specific" things make it look complicated imho. look at: http://svn.red-bean.com/pyobjc/trunk/pyobjc/Examples/Scripts/HelloWorld.py " delegate = AppDelegate.alloc().init() NSApp().setDelegate_(delegate) " and things like that. i understand that there's just no other way if one wants to use the "raw" mac-api, but i'd prefer something "higher-level". > >> so, is there something simpler? maybe a simple gui toolkit built on cocoa? > > There is a simple GUI toolkit built on Cocoa, it's called PyObjC. > There are some efforts at making an even simpler interface, namely > PyGUI and Renaissance, but I would recommend you work with PyObjC, > build your UI with Interface Builder, and use AppKiDo to supplement > Apple's documentation. > > PyGUI > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/ pyGUI seems right now perfect :-) hmm... maybe i made a mistake not saying anything about what i'm trying to build. it's going to be a simple dictionary application,so it will only have a VERY simple gui... some textfields and some buttons and that's all (for now). so i simply don't need the complexity of the interface-builder and so on. i understand that it makes sense to learn it and so on, but for now, pyGUI is enough :-) many thanks for the information, gabor _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
