[Twisted-Python] Is twisted the right tool for this job?
Hi all. I'm writing a simple image archive program. The program is for indexing a whole lot of pictures we sell on a CD. The focus of the product is on the pictures, not the viewer, so it's pretty simple; it just shows the pictures, sorted by category's, resizes them to whatever size the user wants (with imagemagick), and searches though the collection. Right now, the program is using a Twisted webserver in the backend. All the pages are dynamic, based off one template file. The gui is a very simple Venster (venster.sf.net) frontend, mainly consisting of a web browser control, and some code to open a file-save dialog when the user clicks save to save a picture. I'm wondering if there is a better way to do this. Perhaps twisted is a bit too much for all of this? Another problem is when Twisted opens up the server port, firewalls start complaining. Perhaps there is a better way. Also, if there is something better then venster for a front end, I'd be glad to hear about that, too. -Robert
While I understand the benefits of being cross platform, the company I work for does not, nor do they care about it. If it works well on Windows, they're happy. I actually wrote most of the program in linux, and worked on the GUI in windows (emulated, of course). Also, when I tried wx's html component, it seems to have a few problems. It doesn't support CSS, it doesn't show the images, and it doesn't follow any links (perhaps it wants the links to be http://.../page instead of /page?). Is there a gui system that actually shows the html correctly in windows? (I don't use windows much, so I'm not familer with this). And Bob Ippolito; thanks for the tip. -Robert On 7/13/06, David Pratt <fairwinds@eastlink.ca> wrote:
Hi Bob. Please follow this up on the wxPython list to get help with wxPython. An IEHtmlWindow should give you what you need if you are wanting to display HTML in Windows with CSS. There is a recently published book on wxPython and good documentation on the wiki and in the source of the wxPython demo . It is capable gui, however you will not get far unless you do some reading to better understand its capabilities. Regards, David Bad Bob wrote:
It seems awfully stupid to use wxPython to draw up an IEHtmlWindow, where Venster would do a better job of the same thing in probably the same (or less) user code. Venster's only dependency is ctypes, so the combination is a few *megabytes* smaller than wxPython. That means the Venster based application would load *MUCH MUCH* faster (on the order of several seconds), since we're talking about a CD here. Neither wxPython nor Venster are cross-platform for embedding the IE ActiveX control. -bob On Jul 16, 2006, at 8:43 AM, David Pratt wrote:
While I understand the benefits of being cross platform, the company I work for does not, nor do they care about it. If it works well on Windows, they're happy. I actually wrote most of the program in linux, and worked on the GUI in windows (emulated, of course). Also, when I tried wx's html component, it seems to have a few problems. It doesn't support CSS, it doesn't show the images, and it doesn't follow any links (perhaps it wants the links to be http://.../page instead of /page?). Is there a gui system that actually shows the html correctly in windows? (I don't use windows much, so I'm not familer with this). And Bob Ippolito; thanks for the tip. -Robert On 7/13/06, David Pratt <fairwinds@eastlink.ca> wrote:
Hi Bob. Please follow this up on the wxPython list to get help with wxPython. An IEHtmlWindow should give you what you need if you are wanting to display HTML in Windows with CSS. There is a recently published book on wxPython and good documentation on the wiki and in the source of the wxPython demo . It is capable gui, however you will not get far unless you do some reading to better understand its capabilities. Regards, David Bad Bob wrote:
It seems awfully stupid to use wxPython to draw up an IEHtmlWindow, where Venster would do a better job of the same thing in probably the same (or less) user code. Venster's only dependency is ctypes, so the combination is a few *megabytes* smaller than wxPython. That means the Venster based application would load *MUCH MUCH* faster (on the order of several seconds), since we're talking about a CD here. Neither wxPython nor Venster are cross-platform for embedding the IE ActiveX control. -bob On Jul 16, 2006, at 8:43 AM, David Pratt wrote:
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