GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[bart.c]

"Steven D'Aprano" <steve-REMOVE-THIS at cybersource.com.au> wrote in message 
news:4c101fbc$0$28644$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com...
> On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:16:23 -0700, ant wrote:
>
>
>> 1 Although a few advocates of Tkinter have spoken in favour of it, most
>> seem to think that:
>>     It's not particularly elegant, either in its use or its
>> implementation with Tcl/Tk
>>     If we didn't have a GUI in the distribution, we wouldn't choose
>> Tkinter now; it seems like its inclusion
>>     is  a sort of historical accident.
>
> I'm not so sure about that. If we didn't have a GUI, what would we
> include?

Is the Tkinter GUI also the basic way that Python handles a graphics 
display? (I've never tried it.)

If it is, then perhaps it's possible to split the purely graphical drawing 
stuff (which is simple) from the dialog/widget stuff (which is not so 
simple).

A library for graphical display, plus basic user-input, should be 
straightforward to implement. And can be used to produce crude (non-native) 
GUIs.

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Bartc