Building a GUI Toolkit

[Martin P. Hellwig]

On 04/20/10 19:53, Lie Ryan wrote:
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> Rather than writing a windowing toolkit from the low-level, I would
> rather like to see some wrapper for existing windowing toolkit which
> uses more pythonic idioms.
>
> Most popular python GUI toolkit currently in use are only a simple thin
> wrapper over the library they're wrapping and exposes a lot of the
> design considerations of the language that the toolkit was originally
> written in. Yes, even Tkinter that comes with the standard lib is a hack
> on top of python and looks much more Tcl-ish than pythonic.
>
> I have always had the idea of writing a windowing toolkit wrapper that
> creatively uses python features for maximum expressiveness (e.g.
> decorator, with-statement, for-each), but never got the time to write
> anything like that.

Well I suppose you could piggyback on tk for that and rewrapping tkinter 
to be more pythonic is probably more doable than rewriting it from scratch.

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