Pyjamas-Desktop 0.0

Pyjamas-Desktop
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Pyjamas-Desktop is a cross-platform framework and applications widget set,
based on WebKit. PyWebkitGtk is currently the basis for Pyjamas-Desktop,
and it is conceivable that there will exist a PyWebkitQt4, and Pyjamas-Desktop
will run on top of that, as well.

Pyjamas-Desktop is similar to KiWi in that it provides an easy-to-use API,
where you need not know - at all - that you are running PyGTK underneath.

Pyjamas-Desktop is actually a port of Pyjamas which is a web toolkit, so you
also have the option of running PyjamasDesktop applications as web
applications - unmodified.

The Pyjamas Widget set is exceptionally comprehensive and yet is easy to use,
providing:

* Simple, Horizontal, Vertical, Docking, Decking, Popup, Stack, Tab,
Grid, Flow, Table and HTML Panels
* Text Labels and HTML including full CSS Stylesheet support and
full CSS properties
* Input, Password and Textarea input boxes
* List drop-downs including Multi-selection
* Buttons, Checkboxes and Radio-Buttons including groups.
* Form Submit Panel (providing file upload).
* Treeview, Menu and Menubar (vertical and horizontal).

Additional features, thanks to the underlying use of webkit, include:

* Full CSS Stylesheet functionality, both local, remote and direct
and simple API manipulation.
* Option of executing javascript, for full and complete manipulation
of the application.
* Loading of complete HTML Pages, both local and remote; full URL support.
* Plugin support for multimedia plugins such as Flash
(obsoleting the need for gtk-mozplugin)
* Access to XML, XSLT and AJAX.
* (Future: full SVG Canvas support, like HippoCanvas)

It's specifically worth noting that due to Pyjamas-Desktop's history, it purely
provides the "V" in "MVC" applications design, and that one option presently
in use is the JSONRPC proxy client included, for communicating with the "MC"
in the back-end of your application. In this way, the same application
front-end source code can be compiled with PyJamas (into Javascript/AJAX) -
with no modifications - to run with exactly the same back-end HTTP server that
your Pyjamas-Desktop application uses.


Requirements
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Currently, Pyjamas-Desktop requires patched versions of both Webkit and
PyWebkitGtk, as of 01-Sep-2008. The patches are here:

* https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16401
* http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/issues/detail?id=13


Source Code
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Pyjamas-Desktop is available as a git repository:

* git://github.com/lkcl/pyjamas-desktop.git


More information
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* http://advogato.org/article/981.html
* http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas
* http://sf.net/projects/pyjd
* http://lkcl.net/pyjamas-desktop