Ridley5 opened this issue on Jul 26, 2010 · 1724 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 04 August 2010 at 12:25 AM
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Actually I was thinking of writing the UI in Flex, compiled as an AIR application. I have a Python application server (PASer) that runs in all versions of Poser. Using HTTP calls passing XML back and forth, it is trivial to write a Flex GUI that uses Python functions running inside Poser.
A Flex UI is nicer than a wx UI and a lot easier to build. And it runs on every platform.
After my experiences with the Poser 8 library, I think you will understand that I'm a bit cautious about that idea. Also, wouldn't that effectively mean that you'd be the only person able to work on the UI?
The Poser 8 library is Flash, not AIR. But be that as it may...
I suppose if somebody doesn't know Flex and AS3 then they wouldn't be able to help with the GUI. On the other hand:
1) I've written GUI's before in wx and it's not fun. I can write the same GUI in Flex in 1/10th the time.
Combining the two, I could wait for somebody else to take 30 days to make something in wx, or I could do it myself in Flex in one day.
If somebody really wants to write a GUI in wx, and then another one in Tk (because not everybody has P8/PPro2010) and then another one in something else (because Mac Poser users don't have Tk) they are surely welcome to try.
If I didn't have so much paid work to do at the moment, I'd have my GUI up by tomorrow.
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