On Sunday 28 May 2006 19:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. I just downloaded and installed the new Office suite from MS > with their new 'ribbon' based UI. I think it's pretty cool and AFT* > for a new UI paradigm. I hope it sticks. > > Anyway, I'm wondering how to implement a gui like this with Python. I > don't think wx or qt or gtk or tkinter support this sort of fading and > glowing type of effects... or do they? I played with wx way back in > 2000 or so (C++ version), and it certainly didn't have any of that. I > don't know if this stuff is now built into XP, or if it's specialized > libraries only accessible to MS for their purposes. Can a python gui > framework be redirected to use the new gui? Or is this something that > has to be manually emulated from a low-level if python is to make use > of it? What about under linux? > > So I'm not sure if this is a Python question, a xxx-Python question > (where xxx is the widget toolkit of choice), or a windows API type of > question. > > How does one make fancy fading guis with python? (cross-platform if > possible) > > thanks > ms > > *AFT = about freakin' time
Unless I'm missing something (I haven't examined it exhaustively), everything therein seems quite easily doable using python and Qt. I'd check it out. Ten -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list