Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[Hank Fay]

On Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:59:09 AM UTC-5, kw wrote:
 
> Any GUI framework is going to require at least some heavy lifting in C, 
> C++ or Objective-C (depending on the platform). A pure-Python approach 
> to GUI development is technically infeasible.
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Walzer
> Code by Kevin
> http://www.codebykevin.com

So I thought.  Then I came across a framework (Cappucinno.org) and a Visual Designer (280Atlas.com) written entirely in JavaScript (well, Objective-J which gets compiled to JavaScript). Check out 280Slides.com or http://githubissues.heroku.com/#280north/cappuccino for examples of what can be done using JavaScript, and 280Atlas.com for a video of their visual designer.  If that designer can be written in JavasScript (it runs on the web, BTW, and only as an after-thought as a desktop app), then it can be done in Python.

Having worked for 20 years in a windows-based development tool that painted controls (giving them fake hwnd's) to get enough speed to run on Windows, this was a real game-changer for me.  

Hank