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1. The example of the working syntax right now would be: a = App("test", width=200, height=400) a.insert(Button("close",a.quit)) a.run() Should give you an id

by Alcides 18y ago

1. The example of the working syntax right now would be: a = App("test", width=200, height=400) a.insert(Button("close",a.quit)) a.run() Should give you an idea of what I am thinking of. I actually have working with wxGlade for a while, and it generates wxPython code, but I am not happy with that. Another solution is to make windows like Django models. 2. this a python module that you can include with your app, that just calls the specific gui binginds on real time. 3. No relation with Clutter. The idea is to be gui tookit agnostic.

etal 18y ago
The thing that I've idly wished would work in PyGTK and wxWidgets (the ones I've used and liked) has these features: - takes full advantage of data-type literals like dictionaries and lists - allows method chaining -- I think this implies mywgt.add(NewWidget(), callback, data) must return a new modified object, rather than modifying mywgt in-place and returning None. So I can build an app the clean way (generated XML or Django-style models), and then if I need to whip up a simple dialog in straight Python, I can do it like this: import gui myframe = gui.Frame( title="Password", width=300, modal=True, ).add(gui.Col([ gui.Label("""Enter the password to enable this feature:"""), gui.Password(), gui.HRule(), gui.Row([ gui.Button("OK", self.accept), gui.Button("No!", self.cancel)]) ])) myframe[3][1] += gui.Image("images/hellno.png") Not sure if it's possible to use dictionaries as part of the toolkit since ordering is lost, but you see the idea: let container widgets like HBox and VBox accept literals instead of requiring repeated foo.insert() calls; have different methods for in-place modification and returned values; implement container widget's magic attributes like __getitem__ to allow semi-obscure shorthand (since the inline Python form is mostly for simple throwaway/prototype code). There are probably a lot more shortcuts I'm missing; I haven't had my coffee yet and I'm no guru to begin with.
- seunosewa 18y ago
  I see what you mean, and I agree. In other words, we need a "wxQuery" library.

by Alcides 18y ago

etal 18y ago

The thing that I've idly wished would work in PyGTK and wxWidgets (the ones I've used and liked) has these features: - takes full advantage of data-type literals like dictionaries and lists - allows method chaining -- I think this implies mywgt.add(NewWidget(), callback, data) must return a new modified object, rather than modifying mywgt in-place and returning None. So I can build an app the clean way (generated XML or Django-style models), and then if I need to whip up a simple dialog in straight Python, I can do it like this: import gui myframe = gui.Frame( title="Password", width=300, modal=True, ).add(gui.Col([ gui.Label("""Enter the password to enable this feature:"""), gui.Password(), gui.HRule(), gui.Row([ gui.Button("OK", self.accept), gui.Button("No!", self.cancel)]) ])) myframe[3][1] += gui.Image("images/hellno.png") Not sure if it's possible to use dictionaries as part of the toolkit since ordering is lost, but you see the idea: let container widgets like HBox and VBox accept literals instead of requiring repeated foo.insert() calls; have different methods for in-place modification and returned values; implement container widget's magic attributes like __getitem__ to allow semi-obscure shorthand (since the inline Python form is mostly for simple throwaway/prototype code). There are probably a lot more shortcuts I'm missing; I haven't had my coffee yet and I'm no guru to begin with.

seunosewa 18y ago
I see what you mean, and I agree. In other words, we need a "wxQuery" library.