[Pythonmac-SIG] needed: simple gui toolkit with "japaneseinput" support

[Kent Quirk]

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Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] needed: simple gui toolkit with "japaneseinput" support

> > so, is there something simpler? maybe a simple gui toolkit built on cocoa?

> There is a simple GUI toolkit built on Cocoa, it's called PyObjC. 

For particularly large values of "simple", I guess. For those who don't already speak Cocoa, PyObjC is annoyingly cumbersome. Using it requires that you understand Cocoa enough to know how to read its documentation, understand its message model, understand the way it handles object allocation, and be able to use Interface Builder. 

I get the impression that for those who've used Cocoa and prefer Python, it's a breath of fresh air...but for those who've not been swimming in a vat of Cocoa, it's not quite so appetizing.



> There are some efforts at making an even simpler interface, 
> namely PyGUI and Renaissance, but I would recommend you work 
> with PyObjC, build your UI with Interface Builder, and use 
> AppKiDo to supplement Apple's documentation.

Note this goal from the PyGUI documentation page:

"Document the API purely in Python terms, so that the programmer does not need to read the documentation for another GUI library, in terms of another language, and translate into Python."



	- Kent