Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[rantingrick]

On Jan 16, 9:18 am, Adam Skutt <ask... at gmail.com> wrote:

> You need a tremendous set to write /the majority of the applications
> on your computer/.

[...snip incessant rambling...]

Adam your post is so incoherent that i cannot decide if you are FOR or
AGAINST changing the current Tkinter GUI module into a wxPython GUI
module. And this widget set that you keep referring to is a bit vague
also. So i will quote myself because i *think* this may be what "it"
referres to...

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Exactly! All we need to do is replace the existing Tkinter with a
small sub-set of wxPython widgets that mirrors exactly what we have
now...
Toplevel
Label
Entry
Button
Radiobutton
Checkbutton
Canvas
Textbox
Listbox
Menu
Scale
Scrollbar
...thats all you need in the std library "widget wise".
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If you cannot relize that this is exactly what we have now in Tkinter
then you need to go and read the source for Tkinter. Oh hell, i'd
better do it for you. Watch this...

>>> f = open('C:\\Python26\\Lib\\lib-tk\\Tkinter.py')
>>> s = f.read()
>>> f.close()
>>> import re
>>> re.findall(r'class (\w+)\(', s)
['StringVar', 'IntVar', 'DoubleVar', 'BooleanVar', 'Tk', 'BaseWidget',
'Widget', 'Toplevel', 'Button', 'Canvas', 'Checkbutton', 'Entry',
'Frame', 'Label', 'Listbox', 'Menu', 'Menubutton', 'Message',
'Radiobutton', 'Scale', 'Scrollbar', 'Text', 'OptionMenu',
'PhotoImage', 'BitmapImage', 'Spinbox', 'LabelFrame', 'PanedWindow',
'Studbutton', 'Tributton']

Now what seems to be missing from my proposed widget set that hampers
you from re-creating every GUI app on your computer? And just in case
you did not notice "my proposed wxPython module" includes the exact
same widget set. Ok, Ok, i let out image support but in my mind PIL
should handle all of that. The IntVar, StringVar, and BooleanVar
classes are non-applicable in a wx GUI. So just for your sake i shall
"lower the bar of comprehension"...

>>> tkclasses = re.findall(r'class (\w+)\(', s)
>>> omit = ['StringVar', 'IntVar', 'DoubleVar', 'BooleanVar', 'Tk', 'BaseWidget', 'Widget', 'Frame', 'Message', 'OptionMenu', 'LabelFrame', 'PanedWindow', 'Studbutton', 'Tributton']
>>> [x for x in tkclasses if x not in omit]
['Toplevel', 'Button', 'Canvas', 'Checkbutton', 'Entry', 'Label',
'Listbox', 'Menu', 'Menubutton', 'Radiobutton', 'Scale', 'Scrollbar',
'Text', 'PhotoImage', 'BitmapImage', 'Spinbox']

There you have it. The same exact widget set we have now. Sure you
cannot re-create every GUI app on your stinking computer however if
you download the 3rd party wxPython extension module not only will you
be able to re-create every GUI app on your stinking computer it will
wipe your backside too! (psst: "it" refers to wxPython)

i hope you learned something from this exercise Adam.