2008/2/3, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi pythoneans, > > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application > that is accessible through the web and also through desktop > applications and both clients should be presented a simple dialog GUI. > This dialog will only include text fields, radio buttons and a file > upload field. The exact list of fields might change from time to time > which implies that both clients should immediately know about it. > > My idea is that if there was a lightweight GUI
lightweight GUIs are a very different thing. It means it renders the widgets itself, provides uniform look and feel and should be slower. > definition format then > I would define the current list of fields and other GUI elements in > this format, expose this file on the web, and both the web client and > the desktop client Do you mean a web server and desktop client, right ? > would first fetch this file and generate the > appropriate GUI from that dynamically. If the GUI changes I would only > need to modify my definition file and both type of clients would > immediately know about it since before they do anything else they grab > this definition. > > I haven't yet decided on the desktop client GUI library, it depends on > which library has such a dynamically generatable interface from a text > file. But it should be cross platform between linux and windows. > For wxPython there are xrc files, for PyGtk you could use glade or gtkbuilder file formats mainly, PyQt uses .ui and .rc files. They all are cross platform. > What would be the best way to do this? > The components you listed "text fields, radio buttons and a file upload field" are very simple ones. You could use XUL, but you could use one of the toolkits I said earlier. What you will need to do for the web server is parse the generated ui file and generate a html from it, this won't be hard considering the kind of interface you are doing. > Cheers, > Daniel > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
