Future standard GUI library
llanitedave
llanitedave at veawb.coop
Wed May 22 22:31:55 EDT 2013
On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 7:24:15 AM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Wolfgang Keller <feliphil at gmx.net> wrote:
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> > What other open-source cross-platform programming language choices do yo
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> > have.
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> > Java? For GUIs? Excuse me while I vomit.
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> > C++? As a language for human beings? Oops, I have to throw up again.
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> I personally like using Pike and GTK, so if I were to try a
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> cross-platform Python GUI project, I'd probably give PyGTK a shot. But
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> there's another option that is available to every platform and
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> (practially) every high level language: the web browser. Make your app
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> serve HTTP and do up your UI in HTML5/CSS3 - your facilities are
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> pretty extensive. Plus you get networking support for free! Obviously
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> this option isn't for everyone, but don't discount it out of hand.
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> ChrisA
I've been thinking about that myself for some future app ideas. If you have a stand-alone app working from your web browser, don't you need an embedded web server to utilize the file system? Is a system like Django for an app overkill? Or is its embedded development server underkill for a single-user browser-based application?
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