ANN: PyGUI 2.0.4

[David Robinow]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:50 PM, rzed <rzantow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in
> news:49EDB69F.7070901 at canterbury.ac.nz:
>
>> PyGUI 2.0.4 is available:
>>
>>    http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/
>>
>> Fixes a few more bugs and hopefully improves things
>> on Windows, although I can't be sure it will fix all
>> the Windows problems people are having, because I
>> haven't been able to reproduce some of them.
>
> I want PyGUI to work so badly that it just kills me to find that
> that's how it works for me. So badly.
>
> I've always only gotten this response when I try to run the blobedit
> demo:
>  File "C:\extracted\PyGUI-2.0.4\Demos\BlobEdit\blobedit.py", line
> 16, in <module>
>    from GUI import Application, ScrollableView, Document, Window,
> FileType, Cursor, rgb
>  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\GUI\__init__.py", line 78, in
> __getattr__
>    traceback.print_stack()
> Failed to import 'Application' from Applications
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\GUI\__init__.py", line 69, in
> __getattr__
>    module = __import__(modname, self.__dict__, locals(), [name])
> ImportError: No module named Applications
>
> I really don't know what this means. Is it a path issue? There
> appears to be an Applications.py in GUI\Win32, with an Application
> class. If there is some change I can make in the code, can anyone
> tell me what to do? How can I fix it?
>
> The thing is, in my opinion, something like this is what Python
> *should* have in its standard package. That is, a PYTHON GUI, not a
> thin wrapper around an application-specific API. Sure, the GUI is in
> fact a wrapper, but it should not matter what the back end is that
> supports it (eventually... I know, baby steps).
>
> Obviously, I don't know from GUIs, or maybe it would be obvious to me
> what to do to get it working. And it is for people like me that I
> want to see it work. I really don't want to have to spend more than a
> few minutes investigating the nuances of a windowing system. I just
> want to be able to put up a convenient front end for a program.
>
> --
> rzed
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You probably have PyGTK for windows installed.  PyGUI tries "Cocoa",
"Gtk", and "Win32" in that order.  You can override that by:

SET PYGUI_IMPLEMENTATION=Win32

(This is rather awkward.  Perhaps "Win32" should be tried before "Gtk"? )