Why a web app?
On 5/8/13 11:00 PM, David Goldsmith wrote:
So I'm writing this GUI app using wxPython when it dawns on me: why
don't I write it as a Web app (by which I mean Wikipedia's second
definition, namely "[an] application that is coded in a
browser-supported programming language...and reliant on a common web
browser to render the application executable." Then I "discover" a
basic problem: Web apps don't appear to be able to straightforwardly
write to local files (doing so is a central function of the intended
app). I tried the idea of having the Web app post form inputs to a
compiled Python executable, which would then format the inputs and
write the file, but, as I came to understand it, in order for all this
to occur "locally," my app would have to run a local "server" to which
the Web app would post and which would "run" the Python
executable--too complicated for my purpose! (Which is to wade slowly
into Web app development, not dive right into the deep-end.) So the
"workaround" I'm contemplating now is to have the app create the
text--it is meant to be straight ascii, not even unicode--and render
it in a browser viewing object, e.g., a frame, tab, or popup, and then
require the user to employ the browser's File->Save Page As... menu
function to save the result. So my question is: can anyone point me
to an example of a page that uses client-side code (preferably Python,
of course) to process html form text inputs into a page which the code
then renders in a new browser view object? (Yes, I know I've probably
visited thousands of such already and just never registered that that
is what they're doing because I've never cared before.) Thanks!
OlyDLG
