Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-30 Thread Phil Thompson
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:47:58 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > The replacement would need to work with Py 3. TK does. I have not > noticed that anything else does, though that should change eventually. > (And I am sure someone will point of something I have not noticed.) PyQt does. Phil -- http://ma

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-29 Thread Terry Reedy
Martin v. Löwis wrote: I sorta' wish he'd just come out and say, "This is what I think would be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: ...". He is not in the business of designing GUI toolkits, but in the business of designing programming languages. So he abstains from specifying (or even

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-29 Thread Lawson English
Martin v. Löwis wrote: I sorta' wish he'd just come out and say, "This is what I think would be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: ...". He is not in the business of designing GUI toolkits, but in the business of designing programming languages. So he abstains from specifying (or even

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-28 Thread John Fabiani
Casey Hawthorne wrote: >>So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? > > I saw a talk by a school teacher on pyFLTK: GUI programming made easy. > > On another note: I#: Groovy makes it easy to tie into the Java Swing > GUI, so if Python could do that, with the added complication bein

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-28 Thread Stef Mientki
Martin v. Löwis wrote: I sorta' wish he'd just come out and say, "This is what I think would be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: ...". He is not in the business of designing GUI toolkits, but in the business of designing programming languages. So he abstains from specifying (or even

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-28 Thread Nobody
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:17:22 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> His concern really isn't what is in the toolkit, but what isn't. >> It must not require lots of lines of code to produce a simple >> GUI, it must not require specification of absolute coordinates, >> ... - you should be able to contin

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-28 Thread Simon Forman
On Jun 27, 12:54 pm, "laplacia...@gmail.com" wrote: > I just read a blog post of > Guido'shttp://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/06/ironpython-in-action-and-decl... > and notice that he doesn't comment on what he wants in a GUI toolkit > for Python. > > I sorta' wish he'd just come out and say, "Th

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 27 Jun., 23:06, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > I sorta' wish he'd just come out and say, "This is what I think would > > be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: ...". > > He is not in the business of designing GUI toolkits, but in the business > of designing programming languages. So he abstain

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I sorta' wish he'd just come out and say, "This is what I think would > be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: ...". He is not in the business of designing GUI toolkits, but in the business of designing programming languages. So he abstains from specifying (or even recommending) a GUI library

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread laplacia...@gmail.com
On Jun 27, 1:47 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > laplacia...@gmail.com wrote: > > > So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? > > What he did say is "But it hasn't really gotten any less complex to > create the simplest of simple UIs. And that's a shame. When is Microsoft > going to learn th

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread Terry Reedy
laplacia...@gmail.com wrote: I just read a blog post of Guido's http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/06/ironpython-in-action-and-decline-of.html and notice that he doesn't comment on what he wants in a GUI toolkit for Python. I sorta' wish he'd just come out and say, "This is what I think would

Re: What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread Casey Hawthorne
>So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? I saw a talk by a school teacher on pyFLTK: GUI programming made easy. On another note: I#: Groovy makes it easy to tie into the Java Swing GUI, so if Python could do that, with the added complication being the user would need a JVM. -- Re