[Pipet Devel] an interesting thought

[Lapointe, David]

Has anyone benchmarked GTK+ ? At least for our purposes? Eric Harlow has
some cautionary things to say about real time performance ( in the games
chapter ).



> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.W. Bizzaro [mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 1999 9:04 PM
> To: tulip-list at busboy.sped.ukans.edu
> Subject: Re: [Pipet Devel] an interesting thought
> 
> 
> Justin Bradford wrote:
> > 
> > > So each locus would be the same: just a shell that can 
> process our XML
> > > (workflow + bio + GUI) and make an application on the fly.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?  What would be the advantages and disadvantages?
> > 
> > The only problem I see is one of speed. However, if we had 
> widgets along
> > the lines of render_3d_molecule, etc, it could work.
> 
> Yes, I was thinking about making high-level widgets (bindings to C-GTK
> concoctions).  In fact, I have always considered Loci to be a 
> "library" of
> high-level biowidgets.
> 
> But I would make the basic widgets available too, probably through the
> Python-GTK bindings.
> 
> I don't think it would be all that slow.  The tools/loci will 
> be in Python
> anyway.  As Python works, modules are "imported" from other 
> files.  The script
> would be in the LocusML like this:
> 
> <guiscript>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> import sys
> from Gtkinter import *
> import GtkExtra
> 
> class Application:
>