So I guess PyUI is long abandonded? What else is there?

Carlos Ribeiro carribeiro at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 07:34:15 EDT 2004


Martin,

As the other poster mentioned, the SDL-based renderer for PyUI may
help you. Please let us know if you made it work.

I share your pain -- I'm fighting a long battle to find a simple,
intuitive, productive and cross-platform GUI framework for my own
apps. In the end, I'll probably do with many others had done before me
-- end up writing my own framework as a shim layer over someone's else
work. I don't know the reason - if that's just because we can't agree
on a framework, or if it's because there are so many different ways
(and platforms) to make it work that some type of agreement, or
standardization, is just impossible at this point. But I hope the
situtation will improve.


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:07:14 -0500, Martin Maney <maney at two14.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:01:13PM -0300, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> > I've checked PyUI right now, and it seems that there is a release
> > numbered "1.0" - which is a sign that it must have reached a somewhat
> > stable stage. The win32 ZIP file that I've downloaded does not
> > contain any windows specific dll, pyd or exe file, but only pure
> > Python code.
> 
> Yes, as an already-installed tree with the files compiled - well, that
> explains the 1.0.Py2-2 versioning in the name.
> 
> Anyway, I've found the problem buried in a feature request at the
> project's sourceforge site.  In his own words:
> 
>   The OpenGL renderer on 0.95 depends on WGL which is available only on
>   Windows implementations. Support for other platforms such as Mac and
>   Linux would be nice.
> 
> Since the project description claims it, yeah, that sure would be nice.
> This perfectly explains the errors I've been seeing.  Thanks, Carlos,
> you stirred me to dig deeper and put the nail in it - it's another case
> of "Microsoft compatibility" leading another poor fool astray.
> 
> This truly does help.  Now I can stop wondering whether it was
> something I was doing wrong and walk away from this waste of time.
> Would some god-like person with access please make a note of this on
> the uneditable PyUi page on the wiki?  Then there'd be at least a
> chance others could avoid wasting their time.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
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> was ruthlessly competitive, is now matched against a competitor whose
> model of production and distribution is so much better that Microsoft
> stands no chance of prevailing in the long run. They're simply trying
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> 
> 



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