Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-22 Thread Tim Diels
On 20/04/2010 20:53, Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/19/10 03:06, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: On 04/18/10 12:49, Tim Diels wrote: Hi I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit. My main question is: Could I build a

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-20 Thread Дамјан Георгиевски
> 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. Isn't PyGUI exactly that? http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ -- дамјан ((( http://damjan.softver.org.mk/

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-20 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
On 04/20/10 21:15, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: On 04/20/10 19:53, Lie Ryan wrote: 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 a

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-20 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
On 04/20/10 19:53, Lie Ryan wrote: 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 librar

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-20 Thread Lie Ryan
On 04/19/10 03:06, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > On 04/18/10 12:49, Tim Diels wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D >> library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit. >> >> My main question is: Could I build a GUI toolkit of reasona

Re: Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-18 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
On 04/18/10 12:49, Tim Diels wrote: Hi I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit. My main question is: Could I build a GUI toolkit of reasonable performance with the Widget Construction Kit, would it s

Building a GUI Toolkit

2010-04-18 Thread Tim Diels
Hi I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit. My main question is: Could I build a GUI toolkit of reasonable performance with the Widget Construction Kit, would it still feel more or less lightweigh