Python, Glade and portability?

[Steve Holden]

<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

Well I don't know whether this will help, but wxDesigner will produce XML
descriptions of interfaces, so perhaps it might import them as well. So an
XSLT transformation or similar might do.

wxDesigner can be obtained under a trial license if you want to do some
experimentation.

regards
 Steve
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