Thanks Alex, I hadn't seen that (probably because I don't know Ruby) but it looks like a good idea. Guizero is even more cut down in its functionality, there are literally no bells and whistles.
I should probably add - the package is not finished! Some functionality is missing (checkboxes! radio buttons!), there are no docs, and there is no nice installation process. I think all of these things are absolutely crucial to people actually being able to use this with kids, so perhaps best not to inflict this on real children in the wild just yet.
On that note, I would really appreciate it if someone could give me some tips on how to (eventually) package this up so it can be installed from PyPI, because I have no idea how to do that. :) At the moment I'm testing it as a package by using a nasty hack to put the folder in my Python Path which is no doubt highly illegal and should get me escorted from the mailing list. ;)
Laura
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Alex Bradbury asb@asbradbury.org wrote:
Hi all,
As a teacher, I found it really frustrating that there wasn't a Python GUI library that was accessible to children. I talked about it to some
On 14 November 2016 at 09:37, Laura Sach lawsie@gmail.com wrote: people at
Pycon but it didn't really go anywhere, so I decided to have a go myself!
https://github.com/lawsie/guizero
More on the aims of what I'm trying to do can be found in the readme.
This is looking great, thanks for sharing!
Any comments/advice/help would be most welcome! :)
Have you looked at Shoes (from the Ruby world) at all? It was created with a similar aim - to make it as easy as possible to get started with GUI programming http://shoesrb.com/walkthrough/. It might be worth looking at for inspiration, but of course it leans heavily on Ruby magic.
Alex