[GRASS-dev] Python GUI toolkits

[David Finlayson]

I looked briefly at PythonCard (another layer on top of wxPython). It
didn't look like a living project. Is it still maintained?



On 6/8/06, Trevor Wiens <twiens at interbaun.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:50:19 -0700
> Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Does this mean that a scrolling tree widget, for example, that I coded in
> > wxPython (using my Mac as a development machine with the installation of
> > wxWidgets that comes with wxPython) might not work properly in Linux? Or
> > that it might not 'look' the same?
> >
> > I'm not trying to be overly picky, but trying to find out whether this is or
> > is not really an issue for a GUI that simply sits on top of GRASS. The web
> > page propaganda says code once and have it run on all, of course.
> >
>
> This is a long thread so I'm unsure which response to reply to. I
> picked this as it was near the bottom.
>
> It seems to me that out of this discussion wxPython seems to be
> standing out as general contender because of the weakness of pyGTK on
> the Mac at this time. If we don't want to be dependent on libglade would
> it be worth considering something like PythonCard? From what I can tell
> it has no special run time requirements and its use is not required, but
> it may speed certain aspects of the development cycle.
>
> Opinions?
>
> T
> --
> Trevor Wiens
> twiens at interbaun.com
>
> The significant problems that we face cannot be solved at the same
> level of thinking we were at when we created them.
> (Albert Einstein)
>


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David Finlayson