[pygtk] Using Kiwi useful?

[A.T.Hofkamp]

Hello all,

The announcement of kiwi here (at least, I think it was here, otherwise it was 
in c.l.p.a) some time ago was quite interesting, but after reading the online 
documentation, I wonder whether it would be useful for my application.

I intend to develop a 2D editor for editing state-machines, basically a 
DrawingArea with circles (each circle represents a state), and arrows between 
the circles (each arrow representing a transition from one state to another).
States have a name, and there are two different kinds of transitions. Last but 
not least, some states have special marking of being the first (start) state 
and/or being a marker state.

Most of the work would be to handle the various operations that a user can do 
on states and transitions (at least that is what I expect at this moment). The 
Kiwi framework focusses on forms and dialogue boxes rather than DrawingArea's 
instead.
Would it be possible *and* useful to squeeze my user-interaction of states and 
transitions in the Kiwi way of doing things, or should I build something custom?

Tnx for any advice on this matter,
Albert

PS The state-machine file format is human-readable text, so I consider 
pickling and unpickling to be less interesting at this moment (may be later to 
have fully save and reload of all position informatio of all objects).