BAbauta-steen·Nov 5, 2023Submission
BeeWare Toga v0.4.0 – A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
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toga
Python2014–2023
beeware / toga
toga
A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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12 sourcesPybee/toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
2 points · Open discussionA Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
1 points · Open discussionI'm an unaffiliated 3rd party (with a ton of interest) but from what I hear, Python's BeeWare project could use contribs. They have a number of endeavors that are all really neat. Some of them:
1. Toga: cross-platform + mobile, OS-native (looks like a "standard" app for that device) GUI toolkit. https://github.com/pybee/toga
2. VOC: transpile Python bytecode to JVM bytecode. The goal is to be able to run arbitrary Python code within a JVM, with the intention of extremely performant, native deployment to Android. https://github.com/pybee/voc
3. Rubicon: running python through objective C for OS X and iOS. https://github.com/pybee/rubicon-objc
4. Batavia: a Javascript implementation of the Python virtual machine. https://github.com/pybee/batavia
5. Briefcase: packaging Python as a native app, particularly mobile but eventually desktop execu
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tables as well. https://github.com/pybee/briefcase
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Native GUI library in pure Python
4 points · Open discussionhttps://github.com/pybee/toga
IMHO, it's rather amazing, though it needs to be developed further, to support more widgets, remove bugs, etc. Sadly it did not gain much traction after release. Maybe due to not comprehensive documentation and few nasty bugs in the beginning.
I would give this library a go if I would be developing GUI application in python, though apart making few exercises, I have not used it a lot.
Major pros, that it's in python, so debugging is easy, and what is not covered with documentation, can be uncovered also. Another thing you can simply install it with pip.
In Modernizing Python's IDLEA Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
1 points · Open discussionI'm going to have to look real close at Enaml, but I thought I would mention https://github.com/pybee/toga as a very interesting Python GUI project. I think the creators are spreading themselves too thin between their various projects and Toga may be a long ways from seeing a production ready release, but I like what they have started.
In Enaml: A declarative UI library with a Cassowary layout system for PythonToga: a Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
2 points · Open discussionI was really confused when I read "the constrain() call takes expressions that define the relationships you want to impose" (emphasis mine) and saw this code:
container.constrain(button.TOP == container.TOP + 50)
Python doesn't let you pass expressions! Why isn't that just getting evaluated to true or false? Is this not vanilla Python? Is there a pre-processor?
I dove into the code and found the answer here[1]. button.TOP and container.TOP are both Toga Attributes, which have their equality operators redefined.
Very interesting and clever use of operator overloading.
[1] https://github.com/pybee/toga/blob/master/toga/constraint.py
In Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkitWhat version of toga are you running? I'm on Ubuntu with Python 2.7.6, toga v 0.1.0 and cassowary 0.5 and your oneliner works fine.
Edit: In fact, OptionContainer is just 15 days old, so I think you've got an old version: https://github.com/pybee/toga/commit/262efbfc00fae0a96e09666...
In Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit