GUI definition for web and desktop

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/2/3, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>:
> Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
>  > Hi pythoneans,
>  >
>  > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and
>  > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining
>  > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application
>  > that is accessible through the web and also through desktop
>  > applications and both clients should be presented a simple dialog GUI.
>  > This dialog will only include text fields, radio buttons and a file
>  > upload field. The exact list of fields might change from time to time
>  > which implies that both clients should immediately know about it.
>  >
>  > My idea is that if there was a lightweight GUI definition format then
>  > I would define the current list of fields and other GUI elements in
>  > this format, expose this file on the web, and both the web client and
>  > the desktop client would first fetch this file and generate the
>  > appropriate GUI from that dynamically. If the GUI changes I would only
>  > need to modify my definition file and both type of clients would
>  > immediately know about it since before they do anything else they grab
>  > this definition.
>  >
>  > I haven't yet decided on the desktop client GUI library, it depends on
>  > which library has such a dynamically generatable interface from a text
>  > file. But it should be cross platform between linux and windows.
>  >
>  > What would be the best way to do this?
>  >
>
> I believe Glade produces XML descriptions of its interfaces, so wxGlade
>  would be one possible starting-point.
>

Glade does, but dont confuse it with wxGlade. wxGlade can generate
direct python code or XRC files.

>    http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/
>
>  regards
>   Steve
>
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