Asp Forum - Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

Guilherme Polo

2/3/2008 12:56:00 PM

2008/2/3, Steve Holden <steve@holdenweb.com>:
> Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> > 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 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 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.
> >
> > What would be the best way to do this?
> >
>
> I believe Glade produces XML descriptions of its interfaces, so wxGlade
> would be one possible starting-point.
>

Glade does, but dont confuse it with wxGlade. wxGlade can generate
direct python code or XRC files.

> http://wxglade.source...
>
> regards
> Steve
>
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Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

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