Re: Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-03 Thread Fuzzyman
On Jun 2, 3:36 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gilles Ganault wrote: > >> Thegridcan be quite advanced. Did you look at the wxPython demo? Or > >> Dabo? > > > Yes, but although the basic wigets are just fine, wxGrid looks a bit > > like the basic TStringGrid in Delphi, ie. it's pret

Re: Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Michael Torrie
Gilles Ganault wrote: >> The grid can be quite advanced. Did you look at the wxPython demo? Or >> Dabo? > > Yes, but although the basic wigets are just fine, wxGrid looks a bit > like the basic TStringGrid in Delphi, ie. it's pretty basic so that > several vendors came up with enhanced alternative

Re: Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Fuzzyman
On Jun 1, 1:43 pm, Gilles Ganault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:27:30 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For your stated needs, I'd advise checking out IronPython or Python.NET > >(which allow use of .NET GUI libraries). > > Thanks but I forgot to say that

Re: Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 1, 8:28 am, Gilles Ganault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 06:00:03 -0700 (PDT), Mike Driscoll > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I recall that there is an advanced calendar widget that's been made by > >one of the regulars on the wxPython list, but it's not a part of the > >o

Re: [Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Stef Mientki
Ryan Ginstrom wrote: On Behalf Of Gilles Ganault Is it hopeless, or did I overlook things? Are there other solutions I should look at (FLTK, etc.)? For those of you writing business apps in Python for Windows, how do things go as far as GUI widgets are concerned? To do a bit of shamele

Re: Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 1, 8:28 am, Gilles Ganault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 06:00:03 -0700 (PDT), Mike Driscoll > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I recall that there is an advanced calendar widget that's been made by > >one of the regulars on the wxPython list, but it's not a part of the > >o

Re: [Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread TheSaint
On 19:59, domenica 01 giugno 2008 Gilles Ganault wrote: > require rich widgets like (DB)grids, calendars, etc. Qt seems to go a bit further. Try Eric4 as SDK. -- Mailsweeper Home : http://it.geocities.com/call_me_not_now/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Gilles Ganault
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:24:17 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Instead of the COM approach, have you considered using a local, client >based Python server as a container for your business logic and GUI >(DHTML, AJAX)? But web-based apps are even worse, since the set of widgets is even more basic, a

RE: [Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Ryan Ginstrom
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Instead of the COM approach, have you considered using a > local, client based Python server as a container for your > business logic and GUI (DHTML, AJAX)? This would give you a > cross platform solution, without the typical browser/server

RE: [Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread python
Ryan, If you don't mind being Windows-only, there's another approach that I've been working on. I use a WTL application to host the web browser, then pass the browser instance to a COM server written in Python, along with a COM wrapper of the application window. This gives me the flexibility of H

Re: Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Gilles Ganault
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 06:00:03 -0700 (PDT), Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recall that there is an advanced calendar widget that's been made by >one of the regulars on the wxPython list, but it's not a part of the >official distribution at this time. You'll have to ask about calendar >wid

Re: [Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Gilles Ganault
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:59:29 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >wxPython can be made to look pretty nice. Check out Chandler for an example. >http://chandlerproject.org/ Yup, they developped some nice-looking widgets, but it doesn't seem like there's an ecosystem around wxWidgets. I

Re: Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 1, 6:59 am, Gilles Ganault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > >         Since Python is such a productive language, I'd really like to be > able to use it to write GUI apps for Windows, but business apps > require rich widgets like (DB)grids, calendars, etc. > > The ones available in wxWid

RE: [Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Ryan Ginstrom
> On Behalf Of Gilles Ganault > Thanks but I forgot to say that I'd rather not use .Net > because deployment/updates are too problematic for our audience. > > .. that's assuming that a GUI Python can install/update > itself as easily as eg. Delphi, which is where I could be wrong :-/ wxPython c

Re: [Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Gilles Ganault
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:27:30 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For your stated needs, I'd advise checking out IronPython or Python.NET >(which allow use of .NET GUI libraries). Thanks but I forgot to say that I'd rather not use .Net because deployment/updates are too problematic fo

RE: [Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Ryan Ginstrom
> On Behalf Of Gilles Ganault > Is it hopeless, or did I overlook things? Are there other > solutions I should look at (FLTK, etc.)? For those of you > writing business apps in Python for Windows, how do things go > as far as GUI widgets are concerned? To do a bit of shameless plugging, I wrot

[Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?

2008-06-01 Thread Gilles Ganault
Hello Since Python is such a productive language, I'd really like to be able to use it to write GUI apps for Windows, but business apps require rich widgets like (DB)grids, calendars, etc. The ones available in wxWidgets looked a bit too basic compared to what's available for eg. Delphi o