Is it possible to write web-based GUI using Python?

[David LeBlanc]

If using Mozilla is an option, then you might want to look into XUL. This
offers a rich xml based UI delivery platform. IIRC, there is a python
binding for XUL as well.

This might be interesting:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/xulnotes/xulnote_oven.html
And this: http://www.mozilla.org/catalog/architecture/xul/

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

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> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 1:10
> To: pieroul at attglobal.net
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> Subject: Re: Is it possible to write web-based GUI using Python?
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>
> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:05, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
> > What I'd like to be able to do is implement a complete
> GUI-based control
> > application (with buttons, slider, whatever widgets the app needs)
> > accessible over the web.
>
> If you confine yourself to HTML widgets (which does not includes
> sliders, for instance), this is obviously possible -- that's what forms
> are, after all.  If you want widgets beyond what's available in HTML
> (either more responsive/interactive, or simply widgets HTML doesn't
> have, like decent file selection), then you will have to either code up
> a Java applet (potentially in Jython), or write a client application.
>
> If you write a client application, you can use whatever Python GUI you
> want (Tkinter, wxWindows, etc).  You may wish to communicate to the
> server using XMLRPC.  For something more advanced you could use Pyro
> (pyro.sf.net) or another distributed object system (of which there are
> several).
>
> There's many examples of XMLRPC servers for Python, and many of the
> Python web frameworks contain XMLRPC support.  You should be able to
> integrate XMLRPC into your web server system, though I'd encourage you
> to consider using a framework.  To choose a framework, see:
>   http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/WebProgramming
>
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