ANN: PyGUI 2.5

[Greg Ewing]

PyGUI 2.5 is available:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/

Lots of new stuff in this version. Highlights include:

- Improved facilities for customising the standard menus.

- Functions for creating PyGUI Images from PIL images and numpy arrays.

- ListButton - a pop-up or pull-down menu of choices.

- GridView - a user-defined view consisting of a regular grid of cells.

- PaletteView - a GridView specialised for implementing tool palettes.

There is also a big pile of other improvements and bug fixes. See the
CHANGES file for full details.


What is PyGUI?

 

[Terry Reedy]

PyGUI 2.5 is available:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/

Lots of new stuff in this version. Highlights include:

Greg left out the most important to me:
"Now works with Python 3 on MacOSX and Windows!"

 

[Wolfgang Keller]

Lots of new stuff in this version. Highlights include:

- GridView - a user-defined view consisting of a regular grid of
cells.

- PaletteView - a GridView specialised for implementing tool
palettes.

Any chance to see a hierarchical multi-column TreeListView anytime soon?

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

 

[rzed]

Greg left out the most important to me:
"Now works with Python 3 on MacOSX and Windows!"

Apparently *only* Python 3 ?

C:\extracted\PyGUI-2.5>setup install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\extracted\PyGUI-2.5\setup.py", line 12, in <module>
from distutils_extensions import pygui_build_py
ImportError: No module named distutils_extensions

 

[Gregory Ewing]

Any chance to see a hierarchical multi-column TreeListView anytime soon?

There may be a table view, but I can't promise anything about
a tree view, sorry.

 

[Gregory Ewing]

Greg left out the most important to me:
"Now works with Python 3 on MacOSX and Windows!"

I'm not making too much of that at the moment, because it
*doesn't* work on Linux yet, and I've no idea how long
it will be before it does.

The issue is that there will apparently not be any
Python 3 version of pygtk, on the grounds that gobject
introspection can be used instead. Unfortunately,
Gtk 3 and related libraries don't quite handle gobject
introspection well enough to support PyGUI at the moment.

 

[Bill Janssen]

I'm not making too much of that at the moment, because it
*doesn't* work on Linux yet, and I've no idea how long
it will be before it does.

The issue is that there will apparently not be any
Python 3 version of pygtk, on the grounds that gobject
introspection can be used instead. Unfortunately,
Gtk 3 and related libraries don't quite handle gobject
introspection well enough to support PyGUI at the moment.

One possibility would be to develop a PyGUI branch on top of Tk, so that
it would work with Python anywhere.

Bill

 

[Greg Ewing]

One possibility would be to develop a PyGUI branch on top of Tk, so that
it would work with Python anywhere.

Unfortunately, I doubt whether Tk would be up to the task of
supporting PyGUI efficiently. The philosophies of model-view
separation and allowing more than one view of a model are at
odds with the way Tk works.

Anyone who wants to have a go at it is welcome to try,
though.