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

[Will Ware]

Chris Barker (chrishbarker at home.net) wrote:
> ALL the GUI options for Python (tkinter, wxPython, PyQT, PyGTK,
> etc.) are wrappers around a GUI toolkit made for some other laguage...

I don't know much about HyperCard (tho back when it was in vogue, I
heard various stuff about how cool it was) but it certainly seems that
the essential core of its coolness ought to be transferable to Python.
Couldn't the kind of system agnosticism you've described here be
achieved by using the Glade XML format? It describes a GUI's appearance
and design but leaves its implementation largely unspecified.

Maybe a good idea for PythonCard would be "Glade for Chimps". Offer a
somewhat limited range of functionality (maybe most GUIs can scrape by
with menus, text areas, and radio buttons, or something like that) and
where you can get something together without firing more than a couple
hundred neurons.
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