Hackathon Challenge set by ccc (started new thread)
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last edited by@ccc but they're almost always things I want but didn't bother to do.
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last edited by@ccc we need to see your repo within the next hour and half 😱
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last edited by@ccc , do we get to see your repo?
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last edited bySo... I was not able to complete the hackathon myself. Year end at work is keeping me totally occupied so I got the first 30% done but had to abandon the effort. I will try to create another hackathon topic in the new year when I have more time to devote to it.
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last edited by@ccc , that's a shame. But I understand. Was looking fwd to see what you had done. I know, I lost the plot somewhere 😁 It was still fun doing it though.
Look fwd to the next one in the new year
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last edited by@ccc New hackathon topic: a fake
uimodule that actually makesTkintercalls, but allows you to run UI scripts on a desktop computer! (This is unrealistic, but I'd love this support)
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last edited by@Webmaster4o , I am sure it would been a challenging and may daunting for the best of the guys here. And a bit more than a part time thing. At least I think. But I think with the inclusion of the objc_util that ship has well and truly sailed.
But I used to think the same. Would so cool to have this ui on the Mac. I understand the cross platform needs, but from what I have seen briefly playing with TKinter, it's ugly. Not inspiring at all to build an interface. And compared to the ui module it's so convoluted.
I think if ui was available on macs as we see it here, would be a huge hit given that it didn't have to be cross platform. Even on Pcs for that matter. I just think that if was ever done, should be seperate projects with a shared interface. Not all these compromises to have a shared code base. They just don't seem to turn out right. Maybe there others on the market that are more elegant than I have seen.
But with a ui module style interface, I think it would be a death blow for AppleScript. It's amazing Python is sitting there in the background on macs and people resort to AppleScript.
Oh well, that's my 2 cents worth. So not just running Pythonista scripts on the Mac, but to give the Mac users a reason to want to use and learn Python without thinking they are stuck in a console . Very in appealing thought, also makes Python seem old and antiqued and should be only used by techie guys.
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last edited byTkinter doesn't look too bad on mac, I think it just looks crappy on a Windows/linux machine.
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last edited byThe way to get started is to pick just one class out of the UI module and implement that. Afterward, you will have a much better sense of the degree of difficulty and you will also have a demo to convince others to join your effort.
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last edited byyeah. Right now I've got two other projects that are as much as I can handle (A chatbot, and an PHP API for retrieving my grades from my school's servers), but I'll consider this once I finish with these projects.
