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[FEAT] wxWidgets instead of Qt
Hello,
considering the potential licensing issue with Qt (been there, done that) and the size of the library, could it be possible to consider offering a wxWidgets alternative ?
There is already the official Python interfaces Phoenix that mimics what PyQt do.
Hence, minus a few tweaks and tricks, maybe a wxWidgets port might be possible with relative ease.
Your thought on this ?
Regards.
No, absolutely not.
I made a wx backend when I first made Enaml, and I would rather shit in my hands and clap, than to ever do anything with wx ever again.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 2:19 PM Kochise @.***> wrote:
Hello,
considering the potential licensing issue with Qt (been there, done that) and the size of the library, could it be possible to consider offering a wxWidgets https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets alternative ?
There is already the official Python interfaces Phoenix https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix that mimics what PyQt https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download do.
Hence, minus a few tweaks and tricks, maybe a wxWidgets port might be possible with relative ease.
Your thought on this ?
Regards.
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A particular reason so far ? Bad software design ? Unexpected behaviors ? Yet https://www.wxwidgets.org/ looks like a decent UI library that is used by well known and stable applications.
On the other hand, I remember having reported an issue after an untested change has been pushed into wxWidgets without care.
I won't argue with @sccolbert I have not used wx. I would however like to mention that nothing keeps you @Kochise to implement an alternative backend in a different package (like enaml-web and enaml-native do, even though they also define different widgets).
Ok, I'll look into it on my spare time, would be interesting to see how it fares.
Was curious if it was already attempted previously.
I hope it improved in a "good" way since 2013 (first enaml incarnation).
I've worked with wx. Discovering Qt was like a breath of fresh air and I immediately switched all my programs over. Depending on the licensing issues, would PySide be an appropriate alternative? It's LGPL.
Just as an fyi, Enaml already works with PySide out of the box.
On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 1:36 PM Brad Buran @.***> wrote:
I've worked with wx. Discovering Qt was like a breath of fresh air and I immediately switched all my programs over. Depending on the licensing issues, would PySide be an appropriate alternative? It's LGPL.
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