Tkinter--does anyone use it for sophisticated GUI development?

[Matthew Warren]

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> rg] On Behalf Of Fredrik Lundh
> Sent: 20 October 2006 06:43
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> Subject: Re: Tkinter--does anyone use it for sophisticated 
> GUI development?
> 
> Kevin Walzer wrote:
> 
> > Coming from Tcl/Tk, where there are a huge number of 
> extension packages
> > to enhance the Tk widgets and which allow you to make 
> really polished
> > GUI's, I'm struck mainly by how little of this stuff has 
> made it over
> > into Tkinter/Python. For instance, I've developed several Tcl
> > applications that use the core Tk widgets, the Tile theming 
> package, the
> > Bwidget set (great tree widget and listbox, which allows 
> you to embed
> > images), and tablelist (an extremely flexible muti-column listbox
> > display). I've found Python wrappers for some of this 
> stuff, but almost
> > no documentation on how to use them, and very little in the way of
> > actual applications making use of them--which is itself a red flag.
> 
> on the other hand, such wrappers are usually extremely 
> simple, and the 
> mapping between Python and Tk is trivial.  there's simply not much to 
> add to the existing Tk module docs.
> 
> > Am I better off biting the bullet and learning wxPython--a 
> different GUI
> > paradigm to go with the new language I'm trying to learn?
> 
> that's almost designed to get "wx rul3z d00d" replies from 
> the wx crowd. 
>   let's see if they bite.
> 

Weell,  I'm in no position to evangelise it, but alongised other things
for the past two or three weeks I've been looking into different gui
building tools for python, wxDesigner, BoaConstructor, pythonCard and a
couple of others using both tkInter and wxPython.

I've given up trying to find a good one who's method of operation was
quick to pick up, and I've since written the basics of my GUI by hand in
TkInter and now wxPython (was doing that last night as it goes).

..aand so far wxPython is winning easily on the hand-coded front,
especially once you find the demo package and use it. TkInter took me 3
or 4 days without help to work out and build what I needed. WxPython
took an evening and 1 usenet post. And I think it looks much nicer.
I've yet to see what happens with the event loop of either when I start
to use the threaded scheduler I need in the app but hey...


Matt.

(in wrong place to get to google groups again.. As always apologies for
appended text)
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