GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[bart.c]

"Grant Edwards" <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On 2010-06-08, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:
>
>> Since Tk already provides a basic GUI toolset, and Python can interface
>> with it more directly than it can with other toolkits
>>(PyGui -> PyGtk -> Gtk -> Xlib),
>
> Compare that to this:
>
> TkInter -> Tcl -> Tk -> Xlib

Is the Tcl intepreter really need to use this GUI? Why not:

(Pyton ->) Tkinter-API -> Xlib ?

Most of the work of designing a GUI is, well, designing it. That's already 
been done for Tkinter so why not just implement the same spec in Python 
(with whatever lower-level code is needed). Then extending it should be 
simpler.

>> it's not clear to me what is gained by starting from scratch here.
>> (Is it the presence of the Tcl interpreter? I know Tcl is not to
>> everyone's taste, but it is an amazing language...)

Some people aren't interested in the amazing language. Only the graphics API 
that goes with it.

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Bartc