evaluating gui modules, any experience on tkinter?

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krishnakant Mane wrote:
> hello all,
> I seam to have noticed this a bit late but it appears to me that
> tkinter is being used very widely for gui development on all platform?
> is that right?
> since fredric lundh has written a very good introduction to tkinter
> (was that just an intro?), I have got keen interest to know the
> following.  may be fredric himself might put some light on these
> points.
> 1. I seriously don't intend to start a flame war but does tkinter
> stand up to the standards of heavy gui development?  can I have an
> entire mdi application working fine with tkinter?  I know wxpython can
> do it and I have heard enough about pyqt, but tkinter seams to be very
> rich in gui objects.
> 2.  as usual I always look out for accessibility when it comes to gui
> design.  will tkinter be useful for blind people?  I mean, are gui
> apps in tkinter accessible on windows?
> 3.  I don't know if I need any thing else as dependencies on my
> windows machine.  I am using python24 and I did not find any thing
> about installation in the introduction to tkinter.  can some one give
> me the process of installing tkinter and all necessary things?
> 4. is tkinter absolutely compatible with windows gui?  does it call on
> native api for native look and feel?  in that case I think
> accessibility issue is automatically solved.
> I am looking out gui library for some serious application development.
>  one is an erp system and the other is a customer relation management
> system.
> so I am confused between wxpython pyqt and now tkinter.
> out of the 3 I only found qt talking extencively about accessibility,
> but did not find a way to install qt in the first place.  I could not
> compile qt nor did I find any run-time dlls for mingw so that I can
> use it out of the box.
> wxpython is the poorest in documentation and tkinter seams to be best at that.
> please give me some advice.
> thanking all.
> Krishnakant.