New project: anygui

[Thomas Heller]

"Magnus Lie Hetland" <mlh at idi.ntnu.no> wrote in message news:9hg7fg$dmg$1 at tyfon.itea.ntnu.no...
>
> Hi!
>
> This is an attempt to revive the efforts of making a
> "standard" Python GUI.

Great!
Has long been on my wishlist...

>  I realise that standardising
> one as preferable to others might not be desirable,
> and that is not the purpose of this project. The
> purpose is to build a pure Python package called
> anygui which will function in a manner similar to
> anydbm in that it will look for existing backends,
> and use what is available.
>
> A simple API must be decided on which will be compatible
> with all back-end candidates, somewhat in the spirit of
> Sping and Piddle. Therefore, this will not be mean
> as a replacement for these back-ends, merely a simple
> front-end.
>
> I suggest using Greg Ewing's Python GUI API as a
> starting-point:
> http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/
>
> For a first release, a subset may be usable.
>
> Backends that (at least) should be supported:
>
>  - Tkinter
>  - wxPython
>  - Java (AWT and/or Swing)
>
> ... and hopefully many others. (Those of you out there
> who have a package you love may want to step up and make
> it compatible with anygui... :) Greg is himself working
> on an X-windows implementation of the API.
I would (as I said before) be willing to implement
a native windows version.

>
> The project is available at:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/anygui
>
> A mailing-list called anygui-devel has been set up and
> should be activated within a matter of hours. All
> developers and other interested individuals are welcome.
> The GUI SIG is no more - but it is my opinion that Python
> needs a standard GUI package, even if it is a simple
> one (perhaps _especially_ if it is a simple one).
>


Thomas