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[Jean-Michel Beuken <beuken@pcpm.ucl.ac.be>]

Hello,

> Taner Yildirim and I are also thinking about implementing a GUI for
> abinit. We are planing to use python for both scripting and
> visualization. In this way we hope to create something like "CASTEP in
> Cerius2" or "Materials Studio", but thanks to phython it will be
> platform independent. Since we are at the planning stage, we have
> nothing to share with other people yet. We hope to have something to
> report soon...


Good choice with Python for scripting, but for the GUI , which 
package did you choose (VTK, PyQT, PyGTK, wxWindows, ...) and why ?

jmb

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