Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:21:35 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: python and Guile-gtk... [a bit OT] Message-ID: <200802291221.35762.kline@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20080229173538.GA29249@everest.volcano.com> References: <20080229030144.GA45790@thought.org> <47C77716.1060702@giovannetti.ca> <20080229173538.GA29249@everest.volcano.com>
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On Friday 29 February 2008 09:35:38 nepbabu wrote: > Thus spoke Vinny on Thursday, 28 February 2008 at 22:08:06 -0500: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> I'd like help getting python to read from a file and display a steram > >> of text on a textcanvas. I'll fiure out the buttons later. I'd > >> appreciate any insights about regular gtk and guile-gtk. Or whichever > >> GUI libraries have the best python interface. > > > > Hi Gary, > > > > I'm a big fan of wxPython, i.e. wxWidgets for python. Way > > cool and works on Windows as well (very cross-platform). > > It works on a whole hosts of other platforms as well and not only Windows > and freebsd. From it's wxwidgets website [1] - > > "wxWidgets lets developers create applications for Win32, Mac OS X, > GTK+, X11, Motif, WinCE, and more using one codebase. It can be used > from languages such as C++, Python, Perl, and C#/.NET. Unlike other > cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets applications look and feel native. > This is because wxWidgets uses the platform's own native controls rather > than emulating them. It's also extensive, free, open-source, and > mature." > > And from wxpython website[2] - > > "wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program > will run on multiple platforms without modification. Currently supported > platforms are 32-bit Microsoft Windows, most Unix or unix-like systems, > and Macintosh OS X." > > > [1] http://www.wxwidgets.org > [2] http://www.wxpython.org/what.php Thanks for the URLs's; already bookmarked. If a picture is worth a thousand words, an example is worth 1000 lines, so hopefully wxpython has examples of canvases or widgets to do what I want. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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