plib3.ui 0.11

A simple Python 3 UI framework.

The PLIB3.UI package contains a simple framework for writing user interfaces in Python. The aim is to provide two main features:

• It lets the same high-level code work with a number of different underlying user interface toolkits, by providing higher-level abstractions of UI functions.

• It allows you to express the layout of your UI declaratively using Python lists and dicts, and to focus on the code specific to your application with a minimum of boilerplate.

This package is intended as a replacement for the old plib.gui package, providing substantially the same underlying GUI support but with a simpler and easier to use interface.

The setup.py script for PLIB3.UI uses the setuputils helper module, which helps to automate away much of the boilerplate in Python setup scripts. This module is available as a separate release at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuputils3.

Installation

To install PLIB3.UI, you can simply run:

$ python setup.py install

at a shell prompt from the directory into which you unzipped the source tarball (the same directory that this README file is in). This will install PLIB3 and then run each of the post-install scripts in the scripts directory.

Example Programs

PLIB3.UI comes with example programs that illustrate key features of the package. After installation, these can be found in the $PREFIX/share/plib/examples directory. If you have a POSIX system (Linux or Mac OSX), the plib-setup-examples post-install script will install symlinks to the example programs in the $PREFIX/bin directory.