[Pythonmac-SIG] GUIs and Python

[Dan Grassi]

On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 03:52 PM, Marcel Prastawa wrote:

> I am using Pyro (Python Remote Objects) for doing distributed computing 
> and one of the things I did was: execute the GUI loop in one process 
> and the other stuff in different processes (you could run them on 
> different machines). The GUI simply performs method calls on the 
> object's proxy, which looks and feels like an ordinary Python object.
>
> Here's the link:
> http://pyro.sourceforge.net

While this is interesting and portions are definitely applicable it does 
address a different problem.

While I did mention cross machine that is just a fortuitous out fall, 
the main usage I envision is on a single machine.  One would create a 
GUI in some language (ObjC, Java, Applescript, etc.) and write some 
interface code between the various GUI elements and GUI-IAC glue -- 
which could be potentially automatically generated by using the XLM 
generated by Interface Builder on the Mac.  This would be a full 
application GUI server somewhat ala X.  Python would import a GUI-IAC 
module, launch the GUI application, control the GUI and receive 
requests, responses and exceptions from the GUI.  Again the GUI-IAC 
module could potentially be automatically generated the same as the GUI 
GUI-IAC glue .

This is not that much different from a chat server (python) client(Java) 
that I worked on but usually on the same machine.  Of course the Java 
would be an application, not an applet.

BTW, I have looked a "Patterns," Gamma, et.al. and found little to 
resemble this because they do not deal with network and ORB patterns 
which are probably the closest.  Does anyone have a pattern reference 
that is close to this?

Dan