On Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:59:09 AM UTC-5, kw wrote: > Any GUI framework is going to require at least some heavy lifting in C, > C++ or Objective-C (depending on the platform). A pure-Python approach > to GUI development is technically infeasible. > > -- > Kevin Walzer > Code by Kevin > http://www.codebykevin.com
So I thought. Then I came across a framework (Cappucinno.org) and a Visual Designer (280Atlas.com) written entirely in JavaScript (well, Objective-J which gets compiled to JavaScript). Check out 280Slides.com or http://githubissues.heroku.com/#280north/cappuccino for examples of what can be done using JavaScript, and 280Atlas.com for a video of their visual designer. If that designer can be written in JavasScript (it runs on the web, BTW, and only as an after-thought as a desktop app), then it can be done in Python. Having worked for 20 years in a windows-based development tool that painted controls (giving them fake hwnd's) to get enough speed to run on Windows, this was a real game-changer for me. Hank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
