XML for UI (Was: Python should have a IDE like this...)

[Robert L Hicks]

I have little problem with any of the various suggestions that have
been made off my original posting. I say little because the topic has
strayed a little. The idea was to have an IDE with GUI builder
implented in Tkinter.

I have actually used the different implementations suggested but...they
still are using *other* widget sets (i.e. Qt, GTK+, wxPython).

Maybe it is just a "something to get to in the future"...

- Bob


In article <I7Ui6.101693$t94.1397680 at news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>, Dethe
Elza <delza at antarcti.ca> wrote:

> As I understand it, Glade can output your GUI as XML, which you can tweak by
> hand if desired, and read in at run-time.  It's one of the new crop of
> XML-based GUI tools, but the documentation (last time I checked) was
> virtually non-existent.
> 
> WxWindows is also working on an XML format for UI (also under-documented),
> UIML is an attempt to create XML for UI across systems, languages, and
> toolkits (it suffers from being *too* general, IMHO), XForms is the W3C
> attempt to bring standard UI tools to XML/XHTML, XUL is Mozilla's XML
> toolkit (one of the most featureful which is actually *implemented*), and
> BML (Bean Markup Language) from IBM's alphaWorks is an XML language for
> wiring together JavaBeans, which could mean building a UI in Swing with XML.
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice to have an XML dialect which you could read in in Glade,
> or wxWindows, or Java, or
> Tkinter, or Mozilla?  Check back soon...
> 
> --Dethe
> 
> "Will Ware" <wware at world.std.com> wrote in message
> news:G8rzM4.HK8 at world.std.com...
> > D-Man (dsh8290 at rit.edu) wrote:
> > > Glade+libglade is a really cool way to build a GUI.
> >
> > Doesn't Glade only produce C code? I suppose you could make calls
> > to Python from C, but it'd be cool if a GUI builder produced Python
> > directly. Unless I've misunderstood Glade, and it already does this?
> > That would be very cool.
> >
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