Re. PythonCard - was Re: Event-driven GUIs ...

[Ron Stephens]

Please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pythoncard and check out the discussion
on a potential PythonCard project. Just click join and follow the steps.

Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes wrote:

> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 01:27:49 GMT in <3B2EACF5.1D10252D at earthlink.net>,
> Ron Stephens <rdsteph at earthlink.net> spake:
> > Anyway, by my count 7 people have expressed some sort of interest in a
> > HyperCard-like gui creator, since it was first mentioned yesterday by Roman
> > Suzi...
> > Roman Suzi > Heil Hodgson > Jerry Spicklemire > Kevin Altis > Chris Barker
> > Phil Hunt > and myself...
>
>   I'm quite interested, too.  Even simple as it is, Tkinter still
> requires a lot of "manual wiring".  It should be possible to design
> something simpler.
>
>   Even just dropping GUI bits into place, binding some primitives like
> "switch to card X" and "call Python method Y" to each, would be nifty.
>
>   I have some notes and a bit of prototyping for a web-based
> hypercardish project, with a "GUI builder" that makes spec-compliant
> HTML, a server-side application to respond to events, and a database to
> store information persistently.  Unfortunately, it's in Java, I do that
> enough at work that I don't want to do it for fun, and there's already
> Zope and a few others sort of covering that space.
>
>   A Pythoncard would be a nice substitute project.
>
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