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
" He was very frustrated with how long it took anyone to create a graphical toolkit to create webpages. So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? His concern really isn't what is in the toolkit, but what isn't. It must not require lots of lines of code to p

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 t

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

2009-06-28 Thread Stef Mientki
specifying (or even recommending) a GUI library. What he makes clear is the point that Terry cites: no matter what the GUI toolkit is or what features it has - it should be simple to create GUIs, as simple as creating HTML. So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? His

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
sorta' wish he'd just come out and say, "This is what I think would > be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: ...". That way, someone > could then just come along and implement it. (Or maybe he's said this > and I missed it?) > > So, what *does* Guido want in

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
r even recommending) a GUI library. What he makes clear is the point that Terry cites: no matter what the GUI toolkit is or what features it has - it should be simple to create GUIs, as simple as creating HTML. > So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? His concern really isn'

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

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

2009-06-27 Thread Terry Reedy
his is what I think would be suitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: ...". That way, someone could then just come along and implement it. (Or maybe he's said this and I missed it?) So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? What he did say is "But it hasn't

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

What does Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python?

2009-06-27 Thread laplacia...@gmail.com
uitable for a GUI toolkit for Python: ...". That way, someone could then just come along and implement it. (Or maybe he's said this and I missed it?) So, what *does* Guido want in a GUI toolkit for Python? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list