Paul D. Fernhout wrote: > Just a thought: rather than a new GUI implementation, improving the Python > GUI FAQ with lots of this information and pros and cons and so on might be > a very valuable effort just by itself. So much of choices depends on > specifics and tiny details. For example, I'm fairly happy with wx, but > there is this bug with dragging certain widgets under GTK 2.6. And of > course, I also want platform independent fonts (and I'm not sure how to > get those best, wx uses sizers to get platform independent dialog looks, > but the sizes may still vary across platforms). Maybe this 2D, 3D, and > Python GUI efforts needs a web site or blog or something? Some place where > the nitty gritty details gets hashed out? Might be one already? Kind of > like this one for programming languages? > http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ > But specific to Python and graphics and user interaction? > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=python+graphics > Might be something to think about if it does not already exist.
To answer part of my question, there was a Python GUI sig but it got retired in 1999. And I can't access the archives for some reason (when I wanted to see why): http://www.python.org/community/sigs/retired/gui-sig/ The link: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/gui-sig/ goes to: "The requested URL /pipermail/gui-sig/ was not found on this server." There is the ongoing Python Image Processign SIG http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/image-sig/ though I had thought that was more oriented around the specific PIL package. It seems to me that graphics are a powerful way to show people something in terms of education, as well as a powerful way for kids to learn about themselves through visualization, so having all these choices made neat and tidy on a web site (or log kept up to date) for beginners or educators who want to make software seems like a good thing. Presumably the demise of Gui-sig suggests it is hard to keep up that sustained level of interest? But I know I see questions on this on the Python mailing list (i.e. what GUI should I use) all the time. Before this question was asked here, I had never really thought about how many options for Python and graphics and GUIs there really are -- dozens it seems. So, clearly any sort of effort put in this direction (including the original poster's plan to make simple wrapper) is going to be in the right direction. --Paul Fernhout _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
