On 04/20/10 21:15, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
On 04/20/10 19:53, Lie Ryan wrote:
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Rather than writing a windowing toolkit from the low-level, I would
rather like to see some wrapper for existing windowing toolkit which
uses more pythonic idioms.
Most popular python GUI toolkit currently in use are only a simple thin
wrapper over the library they're wrapping and exposes a lot of the
design considerations of the language that the toolkit was originally
written in. Yes, even Tkinter that comes with the standard lib is a hack
on top of python and looks much more Tcl-ish than pythonic.
I have always had the idea of writing a windowing toolkit wrapper that
creatively uses python features for maximum expressiveness (e.g.
decorator, with-statement, for-each), but never got the time to write
anything like that.
Well I suppose you could piggyback on tk for that and rewrapping tkinter
to be more pythonic is probably more doable than rewriting it from scratch.
On second thought, if you would like borderless windows (for example to
implement all widgets from scratch), you run into troubles, as
overrideredirect also affects the keyboard focus, so you can't use the
keyboard in any widget created. And also it would be ice to still have
an iconify option.
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