Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > 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 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 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. > > What would be the best way to do this? > I believe Glade produces XML descriptions of its interfaces, so wxGlade would be one possible starting-point.
http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/ regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
