Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-23 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 11 Okt., 09:56, lkcl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The role of Python is somewhat arbitrary. This could change only if Python becomes a client side language executed by AVM,V8etc. pyv8 -http://advogato.org/article/985.html pyjs.py - standalone python-to-javascript compiler,

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-15 Thread lkcl
On Oct 15, 12:27 am, greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Boddie wrote: there are a few things with regard to layouts which are very difficult with Web technologies (and aren't getting any easier, either) but which are almost trivial with classic graphical user interface toolkits, and of

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-15 Thread lkcl
hello_loader.py is the main err um i just double- checked, so i'd be able to advise you and... err... the problem i described (with the GridTest) seems to have... gone away!! There are lots of references to PyGTK classes in there. yes, that's because i had started with the

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-14 Thread lkcl
Although using browser technologies for desktop applications is interesting (and not new by any means), there are a few things with regard to layouts which are very difficult with Web technologies (and aren't getting any easier, either) but which are almost trivial with classic graphical user

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-14 Thread lkcl
On Oct 13, 9:12 pm, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lkcl wrote: On Oct 11, 11:17 pm, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lkcl wrote: I got the impression that there is currently no Windows binary available. Correct? If not, perhaps someone trustworthy will someday donate one.

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-14 Thread lkcl
if there's a way to enforce the displaying of text - for the _text_ to say i need to be a total area of X in order to display my words. if you make my width too small, i will _force_ my height to be larger as i wrap the text. just like an HTML p /p does. ... of course, i'm well aware of

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-14 Thread lkcl
On Oct 13, 9:59 pm, Orestis Markou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just want to say, thank you for a very enlightening writeup. You should really post this somewhere that we can link to. orestis, thank you for the encouragement. i did post it on my diary:

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Boddie
On 13 Okt, 23:59, Orestis Markou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just want to say, thank you for a very enlightening writeup. You   should really post this somewhere that we can link to. Is this not good enough for you...? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-October/511375.html I don't

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-14 Thread lkcl
On Oct 13, 10:56 pm, David Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 October 2008 11:42, lkcl wrote: i don't know if it _was_ detached from the layout, but it was definitely still visible. see http://pyjs.org/examples/gridtest/output/GridTest.html for the example i was porting to

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-14 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 12:55, lkcl wrote: hello_loader.py is the main err um i just double- checked, so i'd be able to advise you and... err... the problem i described (with the GridTest) seems to have... gone away!! There are lots of references to PyGTK classes in there. Is

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-14 Thread greg
Paul Boddie wrote: there are a few things with regard to layouts which are very difficult with Web technologies (and aren't getting any easier, either) but which are almost trivial with classic graphical user interface toolkits, and of course there are cases where the roles are reversed. I've

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-13 Thread lkcl
On Oct 11, 11:17 pm, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lkcl wrote: I got the impression that there is currently no Windows binary available. Correct? If not, perhaps someone trustworthy will someday donate one. sorry, terry, you deleted a bit too much context :) so, assuming that you

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-13 Thread Propad
the bottom line is: if you want a windows version of pywebkitgtk, i'm happy to assist and advise anyone of the process- it should be quite straightforward _if_ you have MSVC and follow the standard procedure, but i'm not about to spend my own time and effort on providing a win32 port using

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-13 Thread lkcl
You can remove layouts from layouts with the QLayout.removeItem() method. yes... it didn't work. a layout within a layout - i think it was a QHorizontalLayout within a QGridLayout - didn't want to be removed. it's probably a bug. Was it detached from the layout, but still visible? i

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-13 Thread Terry Reedy
lkcl wrote: On Oct 11, 11:17 pm, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lkcl wrote: I got the impression that there is currently no Windows binary available. Correct? If not, perhaps someone trustworthy will someday donate one. sorry, terry, you deleted a bit too much context :) I was

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-13 Thread Terry Reedy
Propad wrote: the bottom line is: if you want a windows version of pywebkitgtk, i'm happy to assist and advise anyone of the process- it should be quite straightforward _if_ you have MSVC and follow the standard procedure, but i'm not about to spend my own time and effort on providing a win32

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-13 Thread Orestis Markou
Just want to say, thank you for a very enlightening writeup. You should really post this somewhere that we can link to. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://orestis.gr/ On 11 Oct 2008, at 10:19, lkcl wrote: On Sep 3, 4:34 pm, Michael Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far, development of PyGUI

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-13 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 13 October 2008 11:42, lkcl wrote: i don't know if it _was_ detached from the layout, but it was definitely still visible. see http://pyjs.org/examples/gridtest/output/GridTest.html for the example i was porting to pyqt4. each time i clicked Next, a new set of N,N would be

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread lkcl
3) Following the public rumor mill and the latest hype RIA i.e. the merge of web- and desktop applications with systems like Adobe AIR, JavaFX, Google Gears and MS Silverlight is the future of frontend development. With the exception of IronPython and Silverlight, Python hasn't even entered

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread lkcl
The role of Python is somewhat arbitrary. This could change only if Python becomes a client side language executed by AVM, V8 etc. pyv8 - http://advogato.org/article/985.html pyjs.py - standalone python-to-javascript compiler, see http://pyjs.org. --

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread lkcl
On Sep 17, 1:16 am, Todd Whiteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd Whiteman wrote: Mark Hammond's Python/Mozilla work has enabled products like Komodo, Miro (Democracy) and the OLPC project to use Python as a major driver for consistent cross-platform GUI applications. Personally, I believe

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread lkcl
On Sep 3, 4:34 pm, Michael Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far, development of PyGUI seems to be a one-man effort, and it may be slowed down by the attempt to develop the API and the implementations concurrently. Could it be useful to uncouple the two, such that the API would be specified

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 11 October 2008 11:19, lkcl wrote: pyqt4 has the concept of layouts. a layout can be a horizontal layout, vertical, grid, and you can even specify the percentage or ratio of the width (or height) that individual cells can use. you attach a layout to a widget; you can attach

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread lkcl
On Oct 11, 3:31 pm, David Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 October 2008 11:19, lkcl wrote: pyqt4 has the concept of layouts. a layout can be a horizontal layout, vertical, grid, and you can even specify the percentage or ratio of the width (or height) that individual cells

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread lkcl
ofhttp://code.google.com, and you'll need to check out a revision some time around sep 2007 of the llpamies branch. rsrrmsrrwssrrfssnrssrr :) http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas then follow through to svn instructions, bearing in mind that, other than the llpamies branch, that code is

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 11 October 2008 21:40, lkcl wrote: On Oct 11, 3:31 pm, David Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can remove layouts from layouts with the QLayout.removeItem() method. yes... it didn't work. a layout within a layout - i think it was a QHorizontalLayout within a QGridLayout -

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread Terry Reedy
lkcl wrote: I got the impression that there is currently no Windows binary available. Correct? If not, perhaps someone trustworthy will someday donate one. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-16 Thread Todd Whiteman
Todd Whiteman wrote: Mark Hammond's Python/Mozilla work has enabled products like Komodo, Miro (Democracy) and the OLPC project to use Python as a major driver for consistent cross-platform GUI applications. Personally, I believe XULRunner has a lot to offer for Python GUI development, I'm

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-14 Thread David Trem
On 10 sep, 20:36, Fred Pacquier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd Whiteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : Personally, I believe XULRunner has a lot to offer for Python GUI development, I'm currently finishing up some documentation steps to show off how to use it specifically for Python (I'll post it

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-14 Thread David Trem
On 10 sep, 20:36, Fred Pacquier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd Whiteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : Personally, I believe XULRunner has a lot to offer for Python GUI development, I'm currently finishing up some documentation steps to show off how to use it specifically for Python (I'll post it

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-10 Thread Fred Pacquier
Todd Whiteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : Personally, I believe XULRunner has a lot to offer for Python GUI development, I'm currently finishing up some documentation steps to show off how to use it specifically for Python (I'll post it to this list when it's finished). That would be really

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-05 Thread Peter Decker
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Palmer schrieb: As anyone knows, the state of Python GUI programming is a little fractured at this time, with many toolkits, wrappers and meta-wrappers dead and alive, with or without documentation. I've come

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Peter Decker schrieb: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Palmer schrieb: As anyone knows, the state of Python GUI programming is a little fractured at this time, with many toolkits, wrappers and meta-wrappers dead and alive, with or without

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-05 Thread Todd Whiteman
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: A long time ago, there was a Python plugin for Netscape which allowed you to run Python straight in the browser. Perhaps it's time to revive such an idea... but then you're still missing out on the GUI part, since you're still stuck with what the browser has to offer in

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-05 Thread Peter Decker
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got me wrong. I didn't say it doesn't use the native toolkit under various OSes, I'm well aware of that it does. What I *did* say was that wx API is designed primarily with windows' toolkit as base, and as a

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-09-04 07:49, Kay Schluehr wrote: 3) Following the public rumor mill and the latest hype RIA i.e. the merge of web- and desktop applications with systems like Adobe AIR, JavaFX, Google Gears and MS Silverlight is the future of frontend development. With the exception of IronPython and

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-04 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 4 Sep., 10:31, M.-A. Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-09-04 07:49, Kay Schluehr wrote: 3) Following the public rumor mill and the latest hype RIA i.e. the merge of web- and desktop applications with systems like Adobe AIR, JavaFX, Google Gears and MS Silverlight is the future of

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-09-04 11:14, Kay Schluehr wrote: On 4 Sep., 10:31, M.-A. Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-09-04 07:49, Kay Schluehr wrote: 3) Following the public rumor mill and the latest hype RIA i.e. the merge of web- and desktop applications with systems like Adobe AIR, JavaFX, Google

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-04 Thread Banibrata Dutta
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, M.-A. Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-09-04 11:14, Kay Schluehr wrote: On 4 Sep., 10:31, M.-A. Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-09-04 07:49, Kay Schluehr wrote: 3) Following the public rumor mill and the latest hype RIA i.e. the merge of

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-09-04 12:57, Banibrata Dutta wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, M.-A. Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-09-04 11:14, Kay Schluehr wrote: On 4 Sep., 10:31, M.-A. Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-09-04 07:49, Kay Schluehr wrote: 3) Following the public rumor mill

PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Palmer
As anyone knows, the state of Python GUI programming is a little fractured at this time, with many toolkits, wrappers and meta-wrappers dead and alive, with or without documentation. I've come across two projects that have the appeal of striving for simple, pythonic APIs: PyGUI and wax. The

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Michael Palmer schrieb: As anyone knows, the state of Python GUI programming is a little fractured at this time, with many toolkits, wrappers and meta-wrappers dead and alive, with or without documentation. I've come across two projects that have the appeal of striving for simple, pythonic

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Palmer
On Sep 3, 12:57 pm, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Palmer schrieb: The other, PyGUI, has an even nicer API and more docs but has relatively few widgets implemented at this time. It also strives for compatibility with several toolkits (two at this time), which I think

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Michael Palmer schrieb: I disagree with that. Meta-wrappers like this will always suffer from problems, as they have difficulties providing a consistent api. For example wx is said to be very windows-toolkit-centric in it's API. Yes I know that it works under Linux with GTK, but it does not come

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-03 Thread OKB (not okblacke)
Michael Palmer wrote: As anyone knows, the state of Python GUI programming is a little fractured at this time, with many toolkits, wrappers and meta-wrappers dead and alive, with or without documentation. How about Dabo? http://www.dabodev.com/ -- --OKB (not okblacke) Brendan

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-03 Thread Greg Ewing
Michael Palmer wrote: So far, development of PyGUI seems to be a one-man effort, and it may be slowed down by the attempt to develop the API and the implementations concurrently. Could it be useful to uncouple the two, such that the API would be specified ahead of the implementation? I'm not

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-09-03 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 3 Sep., 18:34, Michael Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As anyone knows, the state of Python GUI programming is a little fractured at this time, with many toolkits, wrappers and meta-wrappers dead and alive, with or without documentation. A few thoughts. 1) This topic is discussed here