MFC application and Python

[Neil Hodgson]

Adal Chiriliuc:

> wxPython is way too bloated (9 MB on disk, 20MB! in memory for basic
> stuff) and people say buggy. PythonWin is nice and small, but lacks
> some features, like GDI support.

   At least some of GDI is available. I wrote some of the printing code
inside PythonWin and there are calls like dc.GetTextMetrics, dc.SetMapMode,
and dc.TextOut.

> So this gave me the idea of doing it the other way around: having a
> skeleton application which handles Win32 messages and the application
> threads and this will call into Python for the logic, which will call
> back into C++ for the critical operations and GUI updates.

   Venster and ctypes may be of interest. Venster doesn't appear very active
but was updated as recently as January.

   Neil