Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-30 Thread Phil Thompson
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:47:58 -0400, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: The replacement would need to work with Py 3. TK does. I have not noticed that anything else does, though that should change eventually. (And I am sure someone will point of something I have not noticed.) PyQt does. Phil

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-29 Thread Lawson English
with how long it took anyone to create a graphical toolkit to create webpages. So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? His concern really isn't what is in the toolkit, but what isn't. It must not require lots of lines of code to produce a simple GUI, it must not require

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-28 Thread Simon Forman
out and say, This is what I think would be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: That way, someone could then just come along and implement it. (Or maybe he's said this and I missed it?) So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? FWIW, I created a simple GUI builder module I

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-28 Thread Nobody
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:17:22 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: His concern really isn't what is in the toolkit, but what isn't. It must not require lots of lines of code to produce a simple GUI, it must not require specification of absolute coordinates, ... - you should be able to continue the

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-28 Thread Stef Mientki
recommending) a GUI library. What he makes clear is the point that Terry cites: no matter what the GUI toolkit is or what features it has - it should be simple to create GUIs, as simple as creating HTML. So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? His concern really isn't

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-28 Thread John Fabiani
Casey Hawthorne wrote: So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? I saw a talk by a school teacher on pyFLTK: GUI programming made easy. On another note: I#: Groovy makes it easy to tie into the Java Swing GUI, so if Python could do that, with the added complication being

What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread laplacia...@gmail.com
for Python: That way, someone could then just come along and implement it. (Or maybe he's said this and I missed it?) So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread Casey Hawthorne
So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? I saw a talk by a school teacher on pyFLTK: GUI programming made easy. On another note: I#: Groovy makes it easy to tie into the Java Swing GUI, so if Python could do that, with the added complication being the user would need a JVM

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread Terry Reedy
be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: That way, someone could then just come along and implement it. (Or maybe he's said this and I missed it?) So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? What he did say is But it hasn't really gotten any less complex to create the simplest

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
. What he makes clear is the point that Terry cites: no matter what the GUI toolkit is or what features it has - it should be simple to create GUIs, as simple as creating HTML. So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? His concern really isn't what is in the toolkit, but what isn't

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 27 Jun., 23:06, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I sorta' wish he'd just come out and say, This is what I think would be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: He is not in the business of designing GUI toolkits, but in the business of designing programming languages. So he