Premshree's (品速力) Personal Weblog

I now own a Kodak EasyShare CX6200. Also bought a 64MB memory card and a standard charger. My USB port refuses to respond, so I am unable to upload my first few pics.

In other news, I made a lot of changes to pyAlbum.py; it is much better now. There are plenty of album creation tools out there, but I wanted something really simple (sounds so clichéd, eh?) — something like what Zope's Image class offers.

Here's what pyAlbum.py has to offer:
+ Static HTML files
+ Thumbnail creation
+ Basic image information (file size and image dimensions)
+ Minimal customization through the generated CSS file

Requirements:
+ Python 2.x.x (duh!)
+ PIL

Until I move to a Zope server, I'll make do with this. A sample album created using this script is available here.

Why do GUIs have to be difficult to create?

I have been working with wxPython and Python/Tk for some time now (I personally don't like to work on “development environments” like Glade, Qt, etc). However, these are not as simple as I'd like them to be. Agreed, these are simple to use once you get the hang of how to go about doing stuff, but couldn't they be simpler, just a tad?

My ideal GUI language would be one that allows you to structure the layout using a markup language, and that provides control features using a programming language — something like what the combination of HTML and JavaScript is capable of. wxPython provides something called wx.html, but it's not it.

I was working on a simple GUI FontMap. Here's how the (incomplete) program would look like in an imaginary language that I call pidginGUI:

( pidginGUI code )

Yes, once there's a language like this, soon there'll be WYSIWYG editors too. That'd be nice to see.

Have I been left behind? Is there a GUI language/tool like this that I am unaware of?

Some random pics that I clicked. More »