Widget plans?

[Mark]

I've looked at the roadmap but see no mention of widgets. Is there any
prospect of pyglet gaining a widget library so that pyglet could be
used to develop applications without any other dependencies?

[Adam Griffiths]

I've seen a few widget libs out there, but most have died quite quickly.

Here's a list of some I've found.

Sorry that it's not an answer to your question, but I think its important to see what's out there.

Wydget

http://code.google.com/p/pyglet/source/browse/#hg%2Fcontrib%2Fwydget

Inside the Pyglet contrib module

hasn't been updated since 2007

Kytten

http://code.google.com/p/kytten/

Development has stopped

Themes are a pain in the ass and the default look is pretty horrid.

The code is nice though so could probably be forked quite easily.

SimpleUI

http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/simplui-1-0-4-released/

Hasn't been updated since 2009

although the developer is still active here

Pyglons

http://code.google.com/p/pyglons/wiki/windoh

Seems to have its own (its based on pyglet)

Not sure how complete it is.

PyChan

http://pychan.wikidot.com/

Used by FIFE (recreating the fallout engine)

But it's bound to PyGame (SDL+PyOpenGL).

Would be interesting to see if it could be decoupled.

Unfortunately it's XML infested

PyMT (multi-touch)

http://pymt.eu/docs/api-0.3.1/api-pymt.html

Became Kivy, so I guess it's not actively developed.

I dislike Kivy, but that's a personal opinion.

These are all projects that try and invent their own UI system.

This is fine for small projects, but larger projects should aim for a more robust UI tool such as using existing HTML / CSS renderers.

Berkelium

http://berkelium.org/

Free binding to Chromium, unlike non-free awesomium

Would be a good choice for creation of some bindings.

Kivy has bindings here:

https://github.com/kivy/kivy-berkelium/tree/master/berkelium

Haven't taken a look, be good if the 'Kivy'ness could be stripped out.

Librocket

http://librocket.com/

Uses HTML / CSS for rendering UIs.

Unfortunately it is for C++ projects, it's 'python bindings' are actually just for writing scripting logic inside the UI, but it doesn't let you use it from a python project.

Took me a long time to figure that out.

Cheers,

Adam

[Adam Griffiths]

There is a project called PyUI.

http://pyui.sourceforge.net/

It looks quite interesting (pluggable renderers is a big plus for portability), but the last update seems to have been 2003.