Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-13 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
On 3/10/07, iain duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I am just wetting my feet with pylons. I am curious whether anyone on here has experience integrating desktop apps with pylons projects, and if so, would they care to share opinions on feasability, when it is worth, how it went, how

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-13 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
On 3/11/07, iain duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't done it but it's a live issue in our office. I have one site that's a web application (Quixote) and will also be a standalone web application for laptops without Internet access (e.g., for emergency responders on a truck or

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-13 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
On 3/11/07, iain duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while back I built a TurboGears app that utilized XRC (see http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/UsingXmlResources) templates that wxPython can render as GUI elements. The main application (compiled as an .exe) was little more than a

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-13 Thread iain duncan
Based on PyCon talks, Pythoncard takes a lot of the pain out of wxPython. Dabo seems to be aimed squarely at replacing Filemaker. I know the Dabo guys spent a lot of time fighting wxPython. Hmm, having worked a long time as a user of filemaker, that doesn't seem a selling point to me. I

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-13 Thread Mayowa
Mike did the problems with SQLite occur during concurrent(multi thread/ process) read/write access to the db or was this a single instance app? I ask because i'm in the process of evaluating which embeded (r)dbms i should use in an app i'm working on and SQLite is my default fav since i used it

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Orr
On 3/11/07, iain duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far we've done some initial tests with Py2exe (Windows) and Py2app (Mac) and put it on the back burner. I've tried to stay away from that part because I'm more of a Linux guy. If I did it again I'd still go the web route because the

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-11 Thread iain duncan
I haven't done it but it's a live issue in our office. I have one site that's a web application (Quixote) and will also be a standalone web application for laptops without Internet access (e.g., for emergency responders on a truck or ship). We debated doing a wxPython interface for the

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-11 Thread Mike Orr
On 3/11/07, iain duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't done it but it's a live issue in our office. I have one site that's a web application (Quixote) and will also be a standalone web application for laptops without Internet access (e.g., for emergency responders on a truck or

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-11 Thread Cliff Wells
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:38 -0800, iain duncan wrote: Hi folks, I am just wetting my feet with pylons. I am curious whether anyone on here has experience integrating desktop apps with pylons projects, and if so, would they care to share opinions on feasability, when it is worth, how it went,

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-11 Thread Jose Galvez
Cliff Wells wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:38 -0800, iain duncan wrote: Hi folks, I am just wetting my feet with pylons. I am curious whether anyone on here has experience integrating desktop apps with pylons projects, and if so, would they care to share opinions on feasability, when it

Re: Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-11 Thread iain duncan
A while back I built a TurboGears app that utilized XRC (see http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/UsingXmlResources) templates that wxPython can render as GUI elements. The main application (compiled as an .exe) was little more than a bootstrap loader that downloaded a zipfile of Python

Pylons integrated desktop apps?

2007-03-10 Thread iain duncan
Hi folks, I am just wetting my feet with pylons. I am curious whether anyone on here has experience integrating desktop apps with pylons projects, and if so, would they care to share opinions on feasability, when it is worth, how it went, how they did so? Despite what many would have me believe,