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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. awt ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "...The emphasis of anygui is to provide a usable set of interface elements that will work with every backend; particular backends might themselves be capable of more advanced interfaces, but anygui sticks to what is common to them all. ..."

    it looks like awt.

    awt was replaced by swing because by sticking with
    lowest common denominator, you end up with just
    very simple (and not very useful) widgets.