GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Gregory Ewing]

Martin P. Hellwig wrote:

> I do think it is technically possible to have your own window manager in 
> python on x11 but I have no idea if you have equal possibilities on mac 
> and windows (for example to define your own window decoration).
> Though considering tk does just that I would guess this to be the case.

To my knowledge, neither Windows nor MacOSX have a replaceable
window manager in the sense that X11 does. However, it's always
possible for an application to create a window with none of the
standard borders or decorations and fake them itself, which is
what I expect Tk is doing here.

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Greg