[GRASS-dev] GUI toolkits

[Trevor Wiens]

On Sat, 27 May 2006 00:19:27 -0600
Trevor Wiens <twiens at interbaun.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 27 May 2006 17:31:47 +1200
> Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > > One of the questions that Michael had raised in the earlier
> > > threads concerning toolkits and languages to replace the
> > > tcl/tk interface was the accessibility of development tools
> > > on all platforms. Since there has been some interest in
> > > using Python, I began doing a very cursory examination of
> > > the different toolkits and their associated development
> > > environments.
> > ..
> > > I look foward to hearing the opinions of others on the list
> > > about this idea and their experiences with PythonCard (if
> > > any).
> > 
> > We should ask the Thuban devels about the good points and bad points of
> > Python + wxPython as they've already done a FreeGIS GUI with it,
> >   http://thuban.intevation.org
> > 
> > 
> > I understand the desire to start from scratch but wonder if on the Qt
> > path why not just work on, or crib from, QGIS+GRASS, and if Wx why not
> > just make Thuban talk to GRASS via PySWIG, or crib/reuse their front
> > end?
> 
Correcting myself below

> Personally I am in NO position to contribute if we choose C++ as a
> development language. However my experience with Thuban has been pretty
> mixed. When I could get it run, it was pretty nice, but on my systems
> it has been broken most of the time and I've never been very motivated
> to fix it, because it is just a viewer. I don't know if this is
> indicative of wxPython apps in general, but if so this would make me
> concerned about using it.
> 
> > 
> > At minimum we should learn from the others who have gone before us on
> > the same path about what works, what doesn't, where the problems will
> > be..
> 
> Yes, comments from others who've gone down this path would be very
> useful.
> 
> T
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> Trevor Wiens 
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Trevor Wiens 
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The significant problems that we face cannot be solved at the same 
level of thinking we were at when we created them. 
(Albert Einstein)