On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:41:27 +0300, Magnus Lie Hetland  
<magnus@[...].org>  wrote:

>  Peter Damoc <pdamoc@[...].net>:
[snip]
> > As a programmer I would like to have is an OSS python GUI toolkit
> > that  looks great everywhere and acts the same on all platforms
> > without custom  hack in the app code.
> 
>  I agree. Nowadays I think wxPython and PyQt seem like promising
>  candidates, actually.

wxPython rocks! it is the best OSS has to offer right now (personal  
opinion)

>  One option to look out for in the future is Greg's PyGUI:
> 
>    http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui

I will take another look at this. :)

>  [snip]
> > Now to the real question of this email.
> > What should a crazy enough person do to try and build such a
> > toolkit? How could he reuse the work that went into AnyGUI?
> 
>  Hm. Much of the code (and blood, sweat and tears) of Anygui deals with
>  the front-end/back-end stuff -- and if you want to implement the
>  actual GUI stuff yourself, I guess you could just scrap all that. If
>  you want to keep this mechanism, you could probably build on what's
>  there...
> 
>  But if you don't want a pure-Python layer that sits on top of other
>  packages (not sure if you do or not ;) -- why not simply use a
>  packages such as wxPython? It seems to have the BDFLs blessing, so...
> 

I am a wxPython user! for the past 18 months I've used nothing else,  
however it feels "heavy".
The simple HelloWorld is around 11-12 Mb when packaged with py2exe.

Peter.



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