GUIs - A Modest Proposal

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Fri Jun 11 09:46:36 EDT 2010


On 6/11/10 7:48 AM, Andreas Waldenburger wrote:

> I have a strong suspicion that Tkinter may be used a lot more than is
> made public (isn't anything?). I'm especially thinking about scientists
> who write special purpose data processing or control programs with
> basic GUIs. These things don't have to be pretty or anything and it is
> a HUGE advantage if you don't have to jump through any hoops to get it
> to run on different platforms.
>
> /W
>

Good point .Tkinter is very widely used in scientific visualization 
software:

UCSF Chimera
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/

PyMOL
http://www.pymol.org/

There are others, no doubt.

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Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
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