Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-22 Thread Tim Diels
On 20/04/2010 20:53, Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/19/10 03:06, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: On 04/18/10 12:49, Tim Diels wrote: Hi I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit. My main question is: Could I build a

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-20 Thread Дамјан Георгиевски
> Rather than writing a windowing toolkit from the low-level, I would > rather like to see some wrapper for existing windowing toolkit which > uses more pythonic idioms. Isn't PyGUI exactly that? http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ -- дамјан ((( http://damjan.softver.org.mk/

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-20 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
On 04/20/10 21:15, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: On 04/20/10 19:53, Lie Ryan wrote: Rather than writing a windowing toolkit from the low-level, I would rather like to see some wrapper for existing windowing toolkit which uses more pythonic idioms. Most popular python GUI toolkit currently in use a

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-20 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
On 04/20/10 19:53, Lie Ryan wrote: Rather than writing a windowing toolkit from the low-level, I would rather like to see some wrapper for existing windowing toolkit which uses more pythonic idioms. Most popular python GUI toolkit currently in use are only a simple thin wrapper over the librar

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-20 Thread Lie Ryan
On 04/19/10 03:06, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > On 04/18/10 12:49, Tim Diels wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D >> library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit. >> >> My main question is: Could I build a GUI toolkit of reasona

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-18 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
On 04/18/10 12:49, Tim Diels wrote: Hi I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit. My main question is: Could I build a GUI toolkit of reasonable performance with the Widget Construction Kit, would it s

Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-18 Thread Tim Diels
Hi I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit. My main question is: Could I build a GUI toolkit of reasonable performance with the Widget Construction Kit, would it still feel more or less lightweigh

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-24 Thread cyberco
Try BoaConstructor and the wxPython library, both are wonderfull. If you don't mind using Java Swing, and there are good reasons for that, go for jython. It simplifies the java swingcode so much you don't have to use a graphical GUI builder anymore :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-24 Thread Oleg Batrashev
On Sep 23, 5:21 pm, yadin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python > over matlab or java? Haven't seen any free visual layout program for swing, swing is somewhat messy - unnecessary complex layout classes. Compile - run cycle without visu

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
stef mientki schrieb: > Phil Thompson wrote: >> On Sunday 23 September 2007, stef mientki wrote: >> >>> Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >>> stef mientki schrieb: > Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: > >> Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki: >>

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, stef mientki wrote: > ... I never looked at PyQt seriously, because of their weird license. What's weird about it? Lots of software products are dual-licensed, e.g. MySQL, Perl. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-09-23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 23, 4:28 pm, stef mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> yadin wrote: >> > if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python >> > over matlab or java? >> >> As MatLab has a very lousy GUI, >> any other language

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread David Boddie
On Mon Sep 24 00:08:09 CEST 2007, stef mientki wrote: > Phil Thompson wrote: > > On Sunday 23 September 2007, stef mientki wrote: > > >> Could well be, > >> but I never looked at PyQt seriously, > >> because of their weird license. > > > > It's not weird. It's either GPL or proprietary. Your choic

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread stef mientki
Phil Thompson wrote: > On Sunday 23 September 2007, stef mientki wrote: > >> Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> >>> stef mientki schrieb: >>> Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: > Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki: > >> yadin wrote: >

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread Phil Thompson
On Sunday 23 September 2007, stef mientki wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > stef mientki schrieb: > >> Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: > >>> Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki: > yadin wrote: > > if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing > > pyth

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread Kelvie Wong
On 9/23/07, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > stef mientki schrieb: > > Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: > >> Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki: > >> > >>> yadin wrote: > >>> > >>> > if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing > python > ov

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread stef mientki
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > stef mientki schrieb: > >> Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: >> >>> Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki: >>> >>> yadin wrote: > if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python > ov

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread Kelvie Wong
On 9/23/07, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > stef mientki schrieb: > > Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: > >> Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki: > >> > >>> yadin wrote: > >>> > >>> > if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing > python > ov

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
stef mientki schrieb: > Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: >> Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki: >> >>> yadin wrote: >>> >>> if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python over matlab or java? >>> The best is Delphi, >>> second i

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread stef mientki
Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: > Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki: > >> yadin wrote: >> >> >>> if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python >>> over matlab or java? >>> >>> >> The best is Delphi, >> second is VB, >> > > That sounds mos

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread Thomas Dybdahl Ahle
Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki: > yadin wrote: > >> if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python >> over matlab or java? >> > The best is Delphi, > second is VB, That sounds mostly like a personal preference :) I would certainly suggest Python ver

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread brice . fernandes
On Sep 23, 4:28 pm, stef mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yadin wrote: > > if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python > > over matlab or java? > > As MatLab has a very lousy GUI, > any other language would be an advantage ;-) > > The best is Delphi, > second is VB, >

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread stef mientki
yadin wrote: > if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python > over matlab or java? > > As MatLab has a very lousy GUI, any other language would be an advantage ;-) The best is Delphi, second is VB, then comes SciLab, Python, etc I don't know where Java fits in. But as

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
yadin wrote: > if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python > over matlab or java? > This question is WAY to broad to give sane advice. You might want to state your context, objectives and restrictions are. Since you brought up Matlab, I suspect you're going after a sci

building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread yadin
if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing python over matlab or java? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list