Re: [Tutor] experience/opinions with deploying python GUI app to Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X

2008-11-13 Thread greg whittier
Thanks for all the great replies! You've reaffirmed my #1 and #2 seeds -- wxpython and a web app. I haven't really found any show stoppers for wxpython, but I guess I was unnecessarily suspicious. dabodev.com looks like it targets my problem so that's something I'll definitely look at. I had one

Re: [Tutor] experience/opinions with deploying python GUI app to Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X

2008-11-13 Thread Jeff Johnson
Check out Dabo. It is a framework that wraps wxpython and is developed on the mac and is deployed on mac, windows and linux. It has great features like an app builder to get you up and running quickly. http://dabodev.com/ And for the email list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users -

Re: [Tutor] experience/opinions with deploying python GUI app to Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X

2008-11-13 Thread spir
You may have a look at easygui. Probably not for final release, rather for design stage. It's based on tkinter I guess. I found it very helpful as long as the app does not require sophisticated widgets and there is a proper separation of process and UI. Once everything works, it is fast enough t

Re: [Tutor] experience/opinions with deploying python GUI app to Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X

2008-11-13 Thread Alan Gauld
"greg whittier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Deploying to the Mac seems to be the most difficult from what I've read. That's probably true in that for a truly native experience you need to pay a lot of attention to Apple's guidelines and use some kind of tool to produce the correct bundle of fil

Re: [Tutor] experience/opinions with deploying python GUI app to Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X

2008-11-12 Thread W W
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:03 PM, greg whittier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > - web app running locally -- no experience with this, but everybody > has a web browser and there are frameworks like django I could use > - curses -- probably not as pretty as mac/windows users would expect > I'd probably

[Tutor] experience/opinions with deploying python GUI app to Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X

2008-11-12 Thread greg whittier
Hi gang, I know this is probably like asking whether vi or emacs is better, but I'm looking for the best cross-platform (linux, windows, mac os x) user interface toolkit. Since the users won't be programmers, I'd like it to feel as much like a native app as possible in terms of installation. It