Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Stefan Behnel
Daniel Fetchinson wrote: >>> is there a GUI toolkit library for python which can render html? >> At least GTK comes with libgtkhtml, but I bet there are others, too. Ah, and there is also WebKit. Don't know how stable the Python bindings are, but you might know WebKit as part of Apple's browser.

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> >> On the other hand, if you want pure HTML for your web app, maybe you > should > >> consider making the desktop app HTML-based, too? > > > > Jorge Godoy brought that up too, sounds pretty good, but how would > > that work? The desktop app would launch a mini webserver and the user > > would use

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Stefan Behnel
Hi, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: >> On the other hand, if you want pure HTML for your web app, maybe you should >> consider making the desktop app HTML-based, too? > > Jorge Godoy brought that up too, sounds pretty good, but how would > that work? The desktop app would launch a mini webserver and the

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining > > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application > > that is accessible through the web and also through desktop > > applications and

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Stefan Behnel
Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application > that is accessible through the web and also through desktop > a

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > It's clear to me that the logic behind a web interface and a desktop > > interface are two totally different things. I don't want a magic > > method to convert an html/javascript based web app to a desktop app as > > this is clearly impossible. > > But it is not impossible to embed a server on

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Jorge Godoy
Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > It's clear to me that the logic behind a web interface and a desktop > interface are two totally different things. I don't want a magic > method to convert an html/javascript based web app to a desktop app as > this is clearly impossible. But it is not impossible to emb

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> >> >> > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > >> > >> [...] > >> > I believe Glade produces XML descriptions of its interfaces, so wxGlade > >> >> would be one possible starting-point. > >> >> > >> > > >> > Glade does, but dont confuse it with wxGlade. wxGlad

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Steve Holden
Guilherme Polo wrote: > 2008/2/3, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Guilherme Polo wrote: >> > 2008/2/3, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Daniel Fetchinson wrote: >> >> > Hi pythoneans, >> >> > >> >> > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and >> >> [...] >> >>

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Guilherme Polo
2008/2/3, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guilherme Polo wrote: > > 2008/2/3, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > >> > Hi pythoneans, > >> > > >> > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > > [...] > > >> I believe Glade produces XML d

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Dikkie Dik
> I have an application > that is accessible through the web and also through desktop > applications and both clients should be presented a simple dialog GUI. > This dialog will only include text fields, radio buttons and a file > upload field. > > My idea is that if there was a lightweight G

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 3 Feb., 04:42, "Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi pythoneans, > > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application > that

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Steve Holden
Guilherme Polo wrote: > 2008/2/3, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Daniel Fetchinson wrote: >> > Hi pythoneans, >> > >> > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and [...] >> I believe Glade produces XML descriptions of its interfaces, so wxGlade >> would be one possible s

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Daniel Fetchinson schrieb: > Hi pythoneans, > > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application > that is accessible through the web and al

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Guilherme Polo
2008/2/3, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > > Hi pythoneans, > > > > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining > > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Steve Holden
Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > Hi pythoneans, > > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application > that is accessible through the web and also

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Guilherme Polo
2008/2/3, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi pythoneans, > > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application > that is accessib