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: [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: [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: [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