Asp Forum - Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

Guilherme Polo

2/3/2008 11:53:00 AM

2008/2/3, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com>:
> Hi pythoneans,
>
> I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and
> associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining
> simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application
> that is accessible through the web and also through desktop
> applications and both clients should be presented a simple dialog GUI.
> This dialog will only include text fields, radio buttons and a file
> upload field. The exact list of fields might change from time to time
> which implies that both clients should immediately know about it.
>
> My idea is that if there was a lightweight GUI

lightweight GUIs are a very different thing. It means it renders the
widgets itself, provides uniform look and feel and should be slower.

> definition format then
> I would define the current list of fields and other GUI elements in
> this format, expose this file on the web, and both the web client and
> the desktop client

Do you mean a web server and desktop client, right ?

> would first fetch this file and generate the
> appropriate GUI from that dynamically. If the GUI changes I would only
> need to modify my definition file and both type of clients would
> immediately know about it since before they do anything else they grab
> this definition.
>
> I haven't yet decided on the desktop client GUI library, it depends on
> which library has such a dynamically generatable interface from a text
> file. But it should be cross platform between linux and windows.
>

For wxPython there are xrc files, for PyGtk you could use glade or
gtkbuilder file formats mainly, PyQt uses .ui and .rc files. They all
are cross platform.

> What would be the best way to do this?
>

The components you listed "text fields, radio buttons and a file
upload field" are very simple ones. You could use XUL, but you could
use one of the toolkits I said earlier. What you will need to do for
the web server is parse the generated ui file and generate a html from
it, this won't be hard considering the kind of interface you are
doing.

> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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