POD GUI

Introduction

POD is currently a command-line only software, to be more friendly and usefull the final objective is to use a clik-clik interface. This page describe investigation to find the best GUI-framework for POD.

Solutions

Dia

Dia is a diagram editor,dia can be scripted in python to generate/import some data.

Qt

POD-like software using Qt:

• Qucs.
• pyqtdiagrameditor: A simple diagram editor with pyQt.
• QNodesEditor: Une base pour démarrer ?
• OpenAssembler

Gtk

• DiaCanvas in GTK+
• oregano: Software for electrical schematics.
• Gnuradiocompanion.

wxPython

POD-like software using wxPython:

• Beremiz

wxWidget

Kicad use wxWidget

• Kicad (in Grenoble IUT scool)

kivy

Kivy is a GUI framework in native python for multitouch, multiplatform systems.

• showgen use it for it's ProcessCraft solution (not free).

Blender node editor

Blender have an interface graphic to edit node that correspond exactly with our requirement.

• Node Editor

HTML5 solutions

Most of new software are now on the web, maybe html can be used for pod gui ?

Diagramo

• Diagramo is a diagram editor in html5.

Python

• HOWTO Create Python GUIs using HTML

Links

• python wiki page comparative