Re: UI toolkits for Python

Claudio Grondi wrote: 
"Kenneth McDonald" <kenneth.m.mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Thanks for reminding me of Gtk. OK, add that to the list.

The Web Browser interface is good for simple things, and will get better
with CSS2's adoption, but they still don't have a good way for important
things like interactive styled text, key bindings, etc. Good for
simple things
(for which I use them), not for more complex stuff.



I don't fully understand your attitude here. The Web Browser interface has
all I can imagine is required for a GUI, so what is missing when you
consider, that you can generate custom images on the fly on the server and
let the user shape the page without requesting CPU power from the server
using JavaScript.


In this case then, I'm afraid the failure is in your imagination :-)

I don't even name here the not really beeing itegral part of Internet
Browsers JavaApplets and any other kind of plugin stuff.
The only issue I can see with this approach is the speed of responding to
user interactions, but for really optimize this one needs a compiled
language anyway.
What is that complex, that it can't be solved using an Internet Browser as a
GUI?
Do I miss here something?

While you are correct in saying (I paraphrase) that HTML interfaces nowadays can offer a rich graphical interface, it can be quite difficult to manage state maintenance between the two components (web server, web client) in the system.

A "proper" GUI runs all functionality inside a single process, and allows much easier control over complex interactions, creation of dynamic dialogues, and so on.

regards
 Steve
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