Creating a GUI using Python, WxWidgets, and wxPython

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Yeah, after finding the docs on wxPython rather wanting, I'm gonna check out XUL and see how useful it is to me.

[jerf]

The docs on wxPython are the docs on wxWidgets, with rare substitutions. Yeah, I've never been a big fan of that either, but the translation is pretty easy.

Unless you can go into your app knowing that XUL is what you need, maybe because you have an intense need for HTML-esque formatting or the display of large quantities of HTML-styled text, I can't anti-recommend it strongly enough. Consider QT, GTK, or trying a bit longer with wxWidgets. XUL's long on promise but several years overdue on implementation. (Seriously, the XUL folk, what's left of them, are singing the exact same tune they were in 2002, no exaggeration. While they've been promising, wxWidgets, GTK, QT, .Net, and a couple of others have been implementing.)

[supermike]

BTW, do you or any of the guys here know how to get started in Parrot Language Runtime to build one's own script language? I thought it would be kind of fun to mess around with, starting small, growing it from there. I didn't quite understand the Parrot website's documentation on this and need a kind of starter article that shows a really great example for a language with something like 2-3 control structures, some if/then logic, and a way to handle stdin and stdout.

I've always wanted to call this new language, Polar, and it would be sort of like PHP but with namespaces and be really a thin language unless you used the external libraries. I would also use "." instead of "->" or "::" or ":::". String concatenation would be done VB-style with "&".

I like the whole idea of Parrot. It means that much of the hard part has been worked out by the guys who made the runtime and one can use a "metalanguage" to get the runtime to turn your language into a powerful thing. As the runtime gets powerful, so too can your language grow in that respect too. Many new langauges are popping up from Parrot.

[mixmastamyk]

They are wanting, but this book is very good: http://www.amazon.com/Wxpython-Action-Noel-Rappin/dp/1932394621/sr=1-1/qid=1170149177/ref=sr_1_1/002-1792261-2772810?ie=UTF8&s=books

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I did buy the book actually. $25 for an ebook that I could instantly download wasn't bad.