Håvard Vegge <hava...@stud.ntnu.no> writes: Hi Håvard
> I'm developing a small application that will use VIFF. Instead of > inputting values through the command line I would like to create a > simple graphical interface. That is an excellent idea! > Have anyone experience with such GUI toolkits? Any recommendations? > > - I've barely tested PyQt, but it has some dual commercial/GPL > license that I probably want to avoid. > - Tkinter is the "standard" GUI toolkit for Python, but is reported > to have a non-native look and feel. > - wxPython is maybe the most popular GUI toolkit for Python, so > perhaps I give it a try. I would go for PyGTK, which has a Twisted integration available: http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/choosing-reactor.html#auto11 This is important in order to be able to run both the network and graphical event loops. I once played with it, please see viff/apps/double-auction/client.py for a simple program that uses PyGTK with Twisted. It doesn't do anything VIFF related, though. In order to actually do something VIFFy with it, I imagine you would have a button with a callback like this: def start_clicked(): r = create_runtime(...) r.addCallback(go) The go function could then let one of the players input a number: def go(runtime): if runtime.id == 1: x = int(some_input_field.text) else: x = None x = runtime.shamir_share([1], Zp, x) y = x * x z = runtime.open(y) z.addCallback(update_output) Here I guess a text input field in GTK has a text attribute... Finally, update_output would do: def update_output(output): some_label.text = "Shared number: %d" % output.value I talked about this with Tomas Toft just the other day, so maybe he can contribute more to the pseudo-code :-) There were a slightly tricky issue with the synchronization of program counters that we had to think about, but now I don't remember the details. But I know that Tomas has a photo of our blackboard... :-) -- Martin Geisler VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/. _______________________________________________ viff-devel mailing list (http://viff.dk/) viff-devel@viff.dk http://lists.viff.dk/listinfo.cgi/viff-devel-viff.dk
