Python, Glade and portability?

Frank Miles fpm at u.washington.edu
Mon Dec 3 19:45:06 EST 2001


In article <9ug2da$dqd$1 at hermes.shef.ac.uk>,  <josegomez at gmx.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>	I have written some Python software in the past for my own
>consumption in Linux. Now, there is a need to use that softare in other
>"lesser" :-) OS, and I have been asked to port it to windows. 
>
>I had written the software using Glade and python (and several Python
>extensions), and I now realise that I'd need to re-write the GUI to
>accomodate for windows. While this is easy enough to do (I'd just have
>to re-write the UI module, probably using wxwindows or somesuch), I'd
>rather not spend time on it, and I was wondering whether anyone knows of
>an easier solution that might translate the XML produced by glade to
>something which is useable in Windows.
>
>	Any help appreciated,
>	Jose
>
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>José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
>Tel: +44 114 222 5582			Radar & Communications Group
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>					University of Sheffield UK

Is there some reason why the Windows ports of libglade et al. won't work
for you?  (Granted, getting all the right pieces to work together can be
a challenge)...

	-frank
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