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Generic GUI Wrapper For Python

Posted by timothy on from the operating-systems-shouldn't-matter dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "IBM is working on a generic GUI wrapper to allow Python developers to write cross-platform GUIs. The anygui project will expose a common set of functions to the programmer and choose which backend gui toolkit to use for the given platform: TK, WIN32, GTK, Bethon, etc. Currently the software is in an alpha stage. The article also has some example code." Update: 10/27 23:53 GMT by T : Magnus Lie Hetland wrote to point out that though this article is hosted at IBM, "Anygui has nothing to do with IBM. It is, in fact, an independent Open Source project currently hosted at SourceForge."

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  1. WxPython by redcliffe · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's wrong with WxPython? I've seen software on Linux and Windows that uses that. What is the difference between WxPython and IBM's one?

    David

  2. Not IBM... by kraftknoedel · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might be interested to know that this project has nothing to do with IBM. There is an article about it on IBM developerWorks, but that's it.

    Also, it's not David Mertz's project, the project leader is Magnus Lie Hetland.

    More info: http://anygui.sf.net/

    Regards,
    Kalle Svensson, PyGTK backend developer.

  3. Re:What about MacOS X? by kraftknoedel · · Score: 2, Informative

    AFAIK, there is currently no explicit support for MacOS X.

    If MacOS X has Jython (swing), PyGTK, Tkinter or wxPython it should work out of the box anyway. If not, we would of course welcome a developer of a MacOS X backend!

    Regards,
    Kalle Svensson, PyGTK backend developer.

  4. This is not a new GUI toolkit by richw · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of the posts so far seem to have missed the point.

    This is not a new GUI toolkit. It is a wrapper API for a large number of underlying graphic toolkits. You write code for AnyGUI and don't have to worry what GUI toolkit is used. "On Windows, the Win32 API might be used (or wxWindows); on MacOS, native calls; on BeOS, Bethon; on Linux, TKinter or GTK"

    Also, as far as I know this is not an IBM project. The article is just published on an IBM site.

    If this works as well as the AnyDBM module which allows basic database access from Python without having to worry about what actual database you are using it will be great.

    Check out http://anygui.sourceforge.net/