[PythonCE] IdleCE

[Michael Foord]

Brian Brown wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
>
>   
>> Ed Blake wrote:
>>     
>>> [snip..]
>>>       
>>>> did you manage to get wx running?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I never really tried.  Every time I look at Wx it goes the same way:
>>> I check out the demos and am wowed by the great widgets/events/ 
>>> applications
>>> it can handle, then I check out the code and find that it is  
>>> obtuse, sparsely
>>> commented (for example code), and generally confusing...
>>>
>>> Last time I checked out Wx (~ 2 Mo. ago) things were put together  
>>> better, and
>>> the documentation was becoming rather good/complete.  It just  
>>> doesn't do
>>> anything which would compel me to switch though, and it seems  
>>> rather more
>>> complicated than Tkinter.
>>>
>>>       
>> You ought to check out Wax. It's a friendly Pythonic layer that sits
>> atop of wx and IMHO is just as easy to use as Tkinter.
>>     
>
> Well, there is also our skinning framework - you specify the GUI in  
> XML, but inline python is a major part of it. It was designed to  
> allow sending an functional GUI page over jabber or some other  
> transport. There are a lot of other interesting tools at the project  
> as well: http://www.techgame.net/projects/framework
>
> Get it and check out the demos.
>   

Wow, looks interesting. With a Python stub on the client program you can 
dynamically serve applications. That all depends on how good your XML 
skinning protocol is of course. ;-)

I wonder if it would still work with Wax... just thinking aloud. Anyway, 
I'll take a look at it.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
> Brian
>
> btw, it's BSD licensed.
>
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