FW: Fat client thoughts, was: RE: [Zope] Zope + XML-RPC + native GUI

[Jon Edwards]

Ooops, sorry, sent this reply to the Zope-Dev list by mistake!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Edwards [mailto:jon@pcgs.freeserve.co.uk]
> Sent: 22 January 2002 12:32
> To: Zope Dev list
> Cc: sean.upton@uniontrib.com
> Subject: Fat client thoughts, was: RE: [Zope] Zope + XML-RPC + native
> GUI
>
>
> > No, I haven't done this, but I plan to do something like this
> to create a
> > fat client to interact with content objects in a CMF site I am building.
> > I've been playing around with wxPython and Boa Constructor
> > (http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net).  I'd be interest in
> finding out
> > ways in which other people might be creating apps using these tools.
>
> <lots of good stuff snipped>
>
> Hi Sean
>
> I don't know if you've seen PythonCard? ...newish GUI building
> app for wxPython (a bit like Boa, but "lighter") -
> http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/
>
> On their mailinglist, they're discussing which DB to use as a
> (built-in) persistent storage, and ZODB is one of the options -
>
> http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/14884/0/7610885/
>
> One of the samples that comes with Pythoncard is "textRouter"
> (also at http://simon.kittle.info/textrouter) which is a wxPython
> client that uses XML-RPC to post to Blogger or Manilla sites via
> their APIs. Looks like it could give you a headstart in
> developing your CMF-GUI? (If you're looking for collaborators,
> I'd be keen to get involved!)
>
> (BTW has anyone implemented the Blogger API -
> http://plant.blogger.com/api/index.html - in Zope/CMF? I'm
> planning to try it soon, so if anyone has any tips/code they
> wouldn't mind sharing, I'd be very grateful! :-)
>
> On a slight tangent, I also spotted a wxPython app called Gimini
> - http://gimini.sourceforge.net/ It's officially a "MindMapping"
> tool, but I thought the GUI could be adapted to make a nice
> drag-n-droppable sitemap tool for CMF, a bit like the one in
> FrontPage! :-)
>
> Hope that's helpful!
>
> Cheers, Jon
>
> Jon Edwards
> Pricom Ltd
> www.pricom.co.uk