embedding a wxPython application in a web site?

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Hi everybody,

I was wondering… There is a chapter in the wxPython book about incorporating HTML into your wxPython application - how about the reverse? Is it possible (and if yes, how??) to embed a wxPython application in an (interactive) web site?

Thanks for any input you can give on this!

Cheers,
Ingrid

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Are you really thinking about using wxPython for a web site, or just drive a website with
Python programming? If the latter, arguably the shortest and best path to a python
programmed site is:

     www.web2py.com

It is AWESOME!

Otherwise, please explain what you expect from a wxPython driven website.

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On 1/23/2014 10:02 PM, Ingrid wrote:

Hi everybody,

I was wondering... There is a chapter in the wxPython book about incorporating HTML into your wxPython application - how about the reverse? Is it possible (and if yes, how??) to embed a wxPython application in an (interactive) web site?

Thanks for any input you can give on this!

Cheers,
Ingrid
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Hi everybody,

I was wondering... There is a chapter in the wxPython book about
incorporating HTML into your wxPython application - how about the reverse?
Is it possible (and if yes, how??) to embed a wxPython application in an
(interactive) web site?

Thanks for any input you can give on this!

As I understand it, no, you can't do that. I guess there are ways to launch
desktop programs from within your browser based on the site (through Flash
or something), so if you would consider that "embedding" a wxPython app,
then, in that sense, yes....but then again that would mean you could
"embed" anything that runs on a computer in a browser. I don't think that
is really a fair way of thinking of embedding.

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Ingrid <happyplate09@gmail.com> wrote:

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Using the GTK+3 Broadway backend might be possible in the not too distant future.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wxpython-users/ZceqDQwxcuA

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On Friday, January 24, 2014 4:02:01 AM UTC+1, Ingrid wrote:

I was wondering… There is a chapter in the wxPython book about incorporating HTML into your wxPython application - how about the reverse? Is it possible (and if yes, how??) to embed a wxPython application in an (interactive) web site?

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Toni

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Ingrid wrote:

I was wondering... There is a chapter in the wxPython book about
incorporating HTML into your wxPython application - how about the
reverse? Is it possible (and if yes, how??) to embed a wxPython
application in an (interactive) web site?

This has been discussed a number of times over the years, and I seem to
remember there was even a project started to do this, but it's really
hard to grasp how difficult of a problem that is. You can model
well-behaved and predictably-structured programs pretty well, but darned
few programs are well-behaved and predictably-structured.

To get a really effective implementation, you would essentially have to
port the wxWidgets library into Javascript. That's a hell of a task.
(Although I have to say that the Javascript PDF renderer we're all using
now is doing such a good job that it's challenging my idea of what's
possible.)

I understand that there is a subset of Dabo (which is a layer above
wxPython) that can be rendered over the web.

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Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Hi everybody,
thanks a lot for your responses. My question was basically driven by a (admittedly, very vague) vision of having written this nice GUI application and wondering if there was an easy way to just embed it into… something to display it on a web site. I guess the short answer to that is NO(*), which is good to know, in any case.

(*) which is really not that surprising, now that I’m thinking about it a bit more…

Again, thank you for your input! It has been really helpful to have this mailing list to turn to when things get stuck.

Ingrid

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Am Freitag, 24. Januar 2014 10:12:17 UTC-8 schrieb Tim Roberts:

Ingrid wrote:

I was wondering… There is a chapter in the wxPython book about

incorporating HTML into your wxPython application - how about the

reverse? Is it possible (and if yes, how??) to embed a wxPython

application in an (interactive) web site?

This has been discussed a number of times over the years, and I seem to

remember there was even a project started to do this, but it’s really

hard to grasp how difficult of a problem that is. You can model

well-behaved and predictably-structured programs pretty well, but darned

few programs are well-behaved and predictably-structured.

To get a really effective implementation, you would essentially have to

port the wxWidgets library into Javascript. That’s a hell of a task.
(Although I have to say that the Javascript PDF renderer we’re all using

now is doing such a good job that it’s challenging my idea of what’s

possible.)

I understand that there is a subset of Dabo (which is a layer above

wxPython) that can be rendered over the web.

–
Tim Roberts, ti...@probo.com

Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Thanks for asking about this, though, because if you hadn't I wouldn't have
seen the video linked to by Toni, and I found that pretty amazing and
really surprising. I had just assumed there was no way to do that at all.

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Ingrid <happyplate09@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everybody,

thanks a lot for your responses. My question was basically driven by a
(admittedly, very vague) vision of having written this nice GUI application
and wondering if there was an easy way to just embed it into... something
to display it on a web site. I guess the short answer to that is *NO*(*),
which is good to know, in any case.