Comparioson of purpose for PyGUI and AnyGUI ???

[John Lenton]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:13:53AM -0300, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> 
> I'm hedging my bets on a related (but different) approach. I'm writing
> business apps, and the style of interaction that I'm using doesn't
> require a high degree of customization. It's a subset of the full GUI
> approach, using simple data-entry forms and very little "live"
> features. I want to be able to provide both native and browser based
> frontends. The two versions do not need to work exactly the same way;
> for example, some features may only be available on the native
> front-end, but the API must degrade nicely in the case of unsupported
> features.

what you describe is Cimarrón. Although there hasn't been an official
release, it is in use in a (very small) number of production
systems. Unfortunately I/we haven't had time to actually go for the
web side of the thing, but the idea is that it will (eventually) have
it.

> How is it going to work? My idea is to have some kind of form
> description API, with hooks for validation and live data lookups. The
> engine will take care of the rendering either any of the frontends.
> I'm doing some experiments with wxPython and DHTML, and the results
> are promising. In a way, it's AnyGUI revisited with a web twist :-)

we chose gtk2 instead of wx because gtk2 feels much more pythonic (to
us, at least). I'd be interested in knowing what you thought of for
the server side of the dhtml; we had thought about using twisted,
because its event-driven approach fits in very nicely with gui
programming.

Bah, dunno if there's any useful content for you in this mail...
Maybe an URL will help:

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/papo/cimarron/

Hmm, we haven't commited the last changes. I've got to tell styxman
off...

-- 
John Lenton (john at grulic.org.ar) -- Random fortune:
El pescar con caña, requiere paciencia y maña. 
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