> > It's clear to me that the logic behind a web interface and a desktop > > interface are two totally different things. I don't want a magic > > method to convert an html/javascript based web app to a desktop app as > > this is clearly impossible. > > But it is not impossible to embed a server on your desktop and make it > render HTML on some windows.
That's true, that is why I'm looking for a format that is html/javascript/desktop/guitoolkit agnostic. It's ideally simply a text file listing the widgets in whatever format (xml, plain text, json, etc). And the python web app takes this file, parses it and spits out the right html/javascript while the desktop app takes the same file, parses it, and spits out GUI-toolkit specific code that renders a window with those widgets using the GUI-toolkit in question. The web app code that spits out html and the desktop app code that renders a dialog window are different and have to be maintained separately but the *definition file* can be shared. > Then you'd have to code just the web app and > the desktop would also use it... > > If Internet is a requirement, you can even render the HTML from a remote > server. The internet is assumed to be accessible so this is an interesting possibility what you mention. Which GUI toolkit would be able to do this? And so it would work in a way that the desktop app grabs an html page and renders that in a dialog window? If this was possible then maybe this would solve all my problems. Thanks, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
