[Pygui] Native wrappers?

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

Hi,

I must say I find the PyGUI project interesting. From my perspective, the lack of a good, cross-platform UI framework is the major thing missing from Python as-is. I especially find it appealing that one of the goals listed is:

“Get the library and its documentation included in the core Python distribution, so that truly cross-platform GUI applications may be written that will run on any Python installation, anywhere.”

The current implementations, however, use third party wrappers for platform specific frameworks. Wouldn't this prevent PyGUI from being considered for inclusion? For what it's worth, my brief experience with PyObjC is that it's *very* slow to just import; about a second on a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo. Using a simplified, custom wrapper ought to yield much better startup times, if nothing else.

I've checked the source code, and it seems that the starting point for implementing a native Cocoa wrapper would be Applications and Events modules. Is this correct? I might toy around a bit with writing it :)

For what it's worth, I've put a Mercurial repository with all released versions of PyGUI at Bitbucket: <http://bitbucket.org/danchr/pygui/>

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Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
danchr at gmail.com

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