[pygtk] Using Kiwi useful?

[Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro]

On Sex, 2006-09-29 at 13:14 +0200, A.T.Hofkamp wrote:
> 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?


  Sounds like you want goocanvas or diacanvas2.  Although kiwi does have
some  bits useful for all apps.

  Regards.

PS: try looking at a UML modelling program called Gaphor; might be more
worth to contribute to it rather than start from scratch...

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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