Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-21 Thread Chris Mellon
On 12/20/06, Vincent Delporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:15:18 -0600, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >There's a few more caveats I haven't addressed, and there are places > >where wx isn't perfect. > > BTW, do you know of a good article/book on writing cross-

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-20 Thread Vincent Delporte
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:15:18 -0600, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There's a few more caveats I haven't addressed, and there are places >where wx isn't perfect. BTW, do you know of a good article/book on writing cross-platform GUI apps, with recommendations, pitfalls, etc. especially

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-20 Thread Luc Heinrich
Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI: OS X ships with wxWidgets installed. For the sole purpose of providing an easy way to run existing wxPerl and wxPython code (and possibly "pure" wxWidgets code as well). As a *porting* aid if you will, as hinted in the "Using Traditional UNIX Graphic

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-19 Thread hg
The Night Blogger wrote: > Can someone recommend me a good API for writing a sexy looking (Rich UI > like WinForms) shrink wrap application > > My requirement is that the application needs to look as good on Windows as > on the Apple Mac I would download the wxPython demo and test it on all pla

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-19 Thread Chris Mellon
> Ok, now here's a question for you: if crossplatform toolkits/frameworks > are so great and automagically allow to produce superlickable and > native-looking/feeling applications on all three major platforms, why is > there so few of those applications on OS X ? > > "Because Mac users are elit

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-18 Thread Luc Heinrich
Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have a Mac, although I would certainly like one. But one of > the two authors of Dabo is a Mac user, and says that he does all his > development on a Mac, and then tests it on the other platforms. Look > at the screencasts on the Dabo site - most o

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-18 Thread Luc Heinrich
Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks/feels like a native app on OS X. I'm sorry, but the screenshots I'm seeing on the Dabo website all look like ugly Windows ports (when they don't look like straight X11 crap). I can't comment on the feel of course, but I wouldn't hold my breath. I'

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Decker
On 12/18/06, Luc Heinrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're full of it. I routinely write GUI apps in Dabo for both Windows > > and Linux users, and they look just fine on both platforms. > > Oh, I'm sure you do. Now go try to run one of your Dabo apps on a Mac > and see how it looks/feels...

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-18 Thread Paul McNett
Luc Heinrich wrote: > Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You're full of it. I routinely write GUI apps in Dabo for both Windows >> and Linux users, and they look just fine on both platforms. > > Oh, I'm sure you do. Now go try to run one of your Dabo apps on a Mac > and see how it looks

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-18 Thread Luc Heinrich
Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're full of it. I routinely write GUI apps in Dabo for both Windows > and Linux users, and they look just fine on both platforms. Oh, I'm sure you do. Now go try to run one of your Dabo apps on a Mac and see how it looks/feels... :> Here's a hint dire

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-18 Thread Chris Mellon
On 12/17/06, Christophe Cavalaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sandra-24 wrote: > > > On 12/16/06, The Night Blogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can someone recommend me a good API for writing a sexy looking (Rich UI > >> like WinForms) shrink wrap application > > > >> My requirement is that th

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Decker
On 12/17/06, Luc Heinrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My requirement is that the application needs to look as good on Windows as > > on the Apple Mac > > Crossplatform GUIs are a myth, you *always* end up with a lowest common > denominator (aka Windows) which makes your application look like cr

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-18 Thread Vincent Delporte
On 17 Dec 2006 21:20:14 -0800, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You could write it as a web app, with an executable which launches the >server and points a browser at it. Right, I was thinking of this too, but since the OP was talking of a fat app... >Python GUI work is a bit of a

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You could write it as a web app, with an executable which launches the server and points a browser at it. Python GUI work is a bit of a drag, really. One of the worst things about it, IMHO. -T Vincent Delporte wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:23:10 +0100, Christophe Cavalaria > <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-17 Thread Vincent Delporte
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:23:10 +0100, Christophe Cavalaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >They use QT. Back to read the first part of your post. It doesn't make much difference: - QT is big, so even small apps carry a lot of baggage - by not using the native widgets, you're dependent on that layer to

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-17 Thread Christophe Cavalaria
Vincent Delporte wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:37:04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luc Heinrich) > wrote: >>Crossplatform toolkits/frameworks suck. All of them. No exception. If >>you want your app to look *AND* feel great on all platform, abstract the >>core of your application and embed it in plat

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-17 Thread Vincent Delporte
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:37:04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luc Heinrich) wrote: >Crossplatform toolkits/frameworks suck. All of them. No exception. If >you want your app to look *AND* feel great on all platform, abstract the >core of your application and embed it in platform native GUI code. +1. Appli

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-17 Thread Christophe Cavalaria
Sandra-24 wrote: > On 12/16/06, The Night Blogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can someone recommend me a good API for writing a sexy looking (Rich UI >> like WinForms) shrink wrap application > >> My requirement is that the application needs to look as good on Windows >> as on the Apple Mac >

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-17 Thread Luc Heinrich
The Night Blogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone recommend me a good API for writing a sexy looking (Rich UI like WinForms) shrink wrap application No, because such a thing doesn't exist. > My requirement is that the application needs to look as good on Windows as > on the Apple Mac C

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-16 Thread Sandra-24
On 12/16/06, The Night Blogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone recommend me a good API for writing a sexy looking (Rich UI like > WinForms) shrink wrap application > My requirement is that the application needs to look as good on Windows as > on the Apple Mac wxPython or something layere

Re: Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Decker
On 12/16/06, The Night Blogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone recommend me a good API for writing a sexy looking (Rich UI like > WinForms) shrink wrap application > > My requirement is that the application needs to look as good on Windows as > on the Apple Mac For my money (even though i

Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

2006-12-16 Thread The Night Blogger
Can someone recommend me a good API for writing a sexy looking (Rich UI like WinForms) shrink wrap application My requirement is that the application needs to look as good on Windows as on the Apple Mac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list