From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 20:21:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C983F1065683 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D208FC22 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1TKLmsK082226 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) From: Gary Kline To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:21:35 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080229030144.GA45790@thought.org> <47C77716.1060702@giovannetti.ca> <20080229173538.GA29249@everest.volcano.com> In-Reply-To: <20080229173538.GA29249@everest.volcano.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802291221.35762.kline@thought.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Subject: Re: python and Guile-gtk... [a bit OT] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:21:55 -0000 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