GUI definition for web and desktop

[Steve Holden]

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.

   http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/

regards
  Steve
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