So I'm writing this GUI app using wxPython when it dawns on me: why don't I write it as a Web app (by which I mean Wikipedia's second definition, namely "[an] application that is coded in a browser-supported programming language...and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable." Then I "discover" a basic problem: Web apps don't appear to be able to straightforwardly write to local files (doing so is a central function of the intended app). I tried the idea of having the Web app post form inputs to a compiled Python executable, which would then format the inputs and write the file, but, as I came to understand it, in order for all this to occur "locally," my app would have to run a local "server" to which the Web app would post and which would "run" the Python executable--too complicated for my purpose! (Which is to wade slowly into Web app development, not dive right into the deep-end.) So the "workaround" I'm contemplating now is to have the app create the text--it is meant to be straight ascii, not even unicode--and render it in a browser viewing object, e.g., a frame, tab, or popup, and then require the user to employ the browser's File->Save Page As... menu function to save the result. So my question is: can anyone point me to an example of a page that uses client-side code (preferably Python, of course) to process html form text inputs into a page which the code then renders in a new browser view object? (Yes, I know I've probably visited thousands of such already and just never registered that that is what they're doing because I've never cared before.) Thanks!
OlyDLG
