[python-win32] Does Python need a native Windows GUI toolkit?

2008-11-28 Thread Thomas Heller
Does Python need a native, pure Python, Windows GUI toolkit, one that uses win32 api calls directly to use native windows controls? Or would that development be a waste of resources, in these days of of Python.NET, Windows forms, IronPython, (and last, not least, wxPython and all these other

Re: [python-win32] Does Python need a native Windows GUI toolkit?

2008-11-28 Thread Stef Mientki
Don't most people nowadays wants, and maybe even needs, OS-independant applications ? cheers (from a happy wxPython user, formely a happy Delphi user ;-) Stef Mientki Thomas Heller wrote: Does Python need a native, pure Python, Windows GUI toolkit, one that uses win32 api calls directly to

Re: [python-win32] Does Python need a native Windows GUI toolkit?

2008-11-28 Thread Thomas Heller
Stef Mientki schrieb: Don't most people nowadays wants, and maybe even needs, OS-independant applications ? Sure. But I assume that still quite a lot of people do NOT care about x-platform compatibility for their applications. Thomas ___

Re: [python-win32] Does Python need a native Windows GUI toolkit?

2008-11-28 Thread Michel Claveau
Hi! Perso, I use a HTML-GUI (with Python = PyWin32 = IE+Jscript library). It is self-important for me, and enough fun... I had already tried: - Autoit + Python: very good, but a little bit bizarre architecture - Kixform (an ActiveX GUI) ; very easy, but not rather complete - WPF (dotNET),

Re: [python-win32] Does Python need a native Windows GUI toolkit?

2008-11-28 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Thomas Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Python need a native, pure Python, Windows GUI toolkit, one that uses win32 api calls directly to use native windows controls? How does it differ from http://venster.sourceforge.net/ ?

Re: [python-win32] Does Python need a native Windows GUI toolkit?

2008-11-28 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Thomas Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Python need a native, pure Python, Windows GUI toolkit, one that uses win32 api calls directly to use native windows controls? Or would that development be a waste of resources, in these days of of Python.NET, Windows forms, IronPython, (and last,

Re: [python-win32] Does Python need a native Windows GUI toolkit?

2008-11-28 Thread Greg Ewing
Thomas Heller wrote: Does Python need a native, pure Python, Windows GUI toolkit, one that uses win32 api calls directly to use native windows controls? I believe so. One of the long-term goals for PyGUI is to give it a native Windows backend. I share your dislike of layers on layers. Are