GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-06-08, Martin v. Loewis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> TkInter -> Tcl -> Tk -> Xlib
>>
>> Is the Tcl intepreter really need to use this GUI? Why not:
>>
>> (Pyton ->) Tkinter-API -> Xlib ?
>
> Even if this was possible (which it is not)

Why is it not possible?  It seems to have been done for other
languages.

> then you still would need the Tcl interpreter: significant parts of
> Tk are written in Tcl, so Tk won't work without the Tcl interpreter.
>
> However, the Tk API doesn't provide all functionality that Tkinter
> exposes; many features can only be invoked through Tcl.

True.  Were Tcl removed from the equation, then some feautures would
have to be re-implemented in Python.

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