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From: Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky@centrum.cz>
To: twiens <twiens@interbaun.com>
Cc: grass-dev@grass.itc.it
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] GUI toolkits
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:43:38 +0200
I scripted G-ps.map
(http://les-ejk.cz/?cat=gpsmap) with Glade, because I
could not find anything similar to it for wxWindows.
Actually, the reason, why I choosed Gtk was Glade.
That is a pretty nice looking application. I'll have to try
it later.
Glade is very nice tool, the configuration files for new
gui are stored in XML, which can be edited directly. I was
fearing, how fast will the new on-the-fly generated gui,
but even on my laptop it goes very well.I do not say, that we should use Gtk, but I thing, tool
similar to Glade for wxWindows would be *very* importand
for fast and simple development.I tryed to make some graphical app. using PythonCard right
now and I would say, glade works a little bit other, IMHO
better, way. Also the resulting file is python code and
not XML (or somethign "neutral"), which means, that the
GUI can be created only with python and not from other
languages. Also generating the graphical forms for modules
by g.parser seems simplier as XML rather than python to me
- but this will be done sometime in the future, if ever.
This is a very good point. As I said I don't have any
experience building GUI's with Python so this is valuable
information. Glade seems interesting, I'll have to check it
out; thanks. One of the elegant things about g.parser right
now is that is trivial to create a simple gui from shell
scripts. I think this would be highly desirable to retain
for future gui environment. I think the earlier e-mails from
David F. clearly indicate that those who use shell scripts
want to see those abilities fully retained even if a
language specific CLI is provided.
T
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Trevor Wiens