[Edu-sig] re: Pygeo, platforms, wx and Tk

[ajsiegel at optonline.net]

>> TK's capabilities and Arthur's capabilities with TK  being different
>> issues ;)

>Tk is a great cross-platform solution, rock solid and not too hard to use.
>However, other cross-platform GUI frameworks exist, are free and open
>source, and have their own virtues and vices.

Reluctant to go down this road, but:

What Arthur uses as a gui toolkit for PyGeo is largely a decision
being made by Guido.

As mentioned, one of my most primary concerns regarding PyGeo
at this point is packaging/distribution.  So in the absence of compelling
reason to do otherwise, I will stick with the toolkit distributed standard with
PyGeo.

There are lots of great things being done with other toolkits.  And it does
seem to me that general concensus would more easily form around
wxPython, as truer standard, than TK.

Not my battle to fight.  

And the status of Idle then becomes an issue.

But Guido should be made aware if he is not already - since his own 
writings on education contemplate utilizing 3d graphics - that OpenGL 
on Tk has become problematic

And I guess this is partly an effort to make sure that he is aware of this.

(though I am not swearing as to its status as broken/fixed as of today)

And I *do* face a crucial functional issue with TK, and only on Linux, as it 
happens, regarding threading.

I may try to present the issue later, to try to get some feedback, and
help determine whether the issue is inherent, a limitation of the developer,
or a limitation of the particular toolkit.


Art.