WORKAROUND & the Python GUI-lib situation ...

[Diez B. Roggisch]

>> > a far better position for most non-trivial UIs, becuase it has
>> > infrastructure that win32 (pretty much alone among modern UI toolkits)
>> > lacks, like layout algorithms and i18ln support.
>>
>> Qt has all of this. On all platforms. Just for the record.
>>
> 
> I know - so do almost all other toolkits, but not the win32 API, which
> is what I was comparing it to.

Ah, I misread your statement as win32 _having_ layout algorithms. 
 
> Dialog units. But thats a mapping mechanism for scaling dialogs to
> screen resolution, not a layout mechanism. The traditional mechanism
> on win32 (VB and otherwise) is to place your controls in absolute
> (dialog unit) coordinates. If you want to scale with window resizes,
> you need to do it manually. Even Delphi has better layout support than
> that!

Yes - and as I knew tk when first seing win32, I thought of it being
archaic.

Sorry  for the confusion,

Diez