[Idle-dev] IDLE and Jython

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Mats Wichmann wrote:

> Have there been any thoughts on making an IDLE-like
> beast for Jython?

Not that I'm aware of -- feel free to go ahead and do it, though!

> Presumably all the Tk stuff that IDLE uses would have to be replaced
> with Java (which might be daunting enough), but would there be other
> issues?

You could try to use the Java bindings to Tk that are floating around on
the JPython website.  There isn't terribly much abstract, toolkit
independant code packaged with IDLE, so if you're going to do it with
another toolkit it's probably going to be a different "product".


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PS: by the way -- the Tk code will have to be replaced with *AWT* or
*Swing*, not "Java"... (the confusion between Java's language (which is
passable) and Java's standard libarary (which is an unusable piece of
trash) is one of those sun-reinforced myths that life hard for developers
trying to advocate high-level languages)