[Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

2013-07-09 Thread Paul Wiseman
I'm looking to make a cross platform application, and I'm looking into different languages and options to get an understanding of the strengths and limitations before I put significant effort in a particular direction. One option I'm considering is using python with QT and PySide. Maybe this

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

2013-07-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 7/9/13 5:46 AM, Paul Wiseman wrote: But would anyone know if it would be possible to implement these platform specific bits whilst using PySide, using ctypes / pyobjc etc? (window animations, mac sheets etc.) This SO page has a few different examples of flipping windows in Cocoa:

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

2013-07-09 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 9 Jul, 2013, at 14:56, Kevin Walzer k...@codebykevin.com wrote: On 7/9/13 5:46 AM, Paul Wiseman wrote: But would anyone know if it would be possible to implement these platform specific bits whilst using PySide, using ctypes / pyobjc etc? (window animations, mac sheets etc.) This

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

2013-07-09 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 9 Jul, 2013, at 15:15, Paul Wiseman poal...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 July 2013 14:08, Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com wrote: On 9 Jul, 2013, at 14:56, Kevin Walzer k...@codebykevin.com wrote: On 7/9/13 5:46 AM, Paul Wiseman wrote: But would anyone know if it would be possible

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

2013-07-09 Thread Paul Wiseman
On 9 July 2013 14:08, Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com wrote: On 9 Jul, 2013, at 14:56, Kevin Walzer k...@codebykevin.com wrote: On 7/9/13 5:46 AM, Paul Wiseman wrote: But would anyone know if it would be possible to implement these platform specific bits whilst using PySide,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

2013-07-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 7/9/13 9:15 AM, Paul Wiseman wrote: It looks like you can get the native window handle which is promising: https://deptinfo-ensip.univ-poitiers.fr/ENS/pyside-docs/PySide/QtGui/QWidget.html#PySide.QtGui.PySide.QtGui.QWidget.winId Good to see. By the way, is PySide still being maintained

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

2013-07-09 Thread Paul Wiseman
On 9 July 2013 14:50, Kevin Walzer k...@codebykevin.com wrote: On 7/9/13 9:15 AM, Paul Wiseman wrote: It looks like you can get the native window handle which is promising: https://deptinfo-ensip.univ-**poitiers.fr/ENS/pyside-docs/**

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

2013-07-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 7/9/13 10:34 AM, Paul Wiseman wrote: Nope, they had a release today in fact (v1.2.0) so it's very much still active. But it supports Qt 4.8. Digia has just released Qt 5.1. Qt5 has some huge differences from 4.x, among them it's moving heavily into using QtQuick (a declarative markup