[PYTHONMAC-SIG] PowerPlant?

[Glenn Andreas]

>Glenn wrote:
>> Considering how unappealing the Tkinter stuff is for a mac application, one
>> alternative would be to leverage off an existing framework, namely
>> PowerPlant..
>
>pardon my ignorance, what about the tkinter stuff doesn't work well,
>or is it just the lack of proper native look and feel, which is coming
>along at sun?

Here's a couple of reasons where Tk fails and PowerPlant doesn't
        the look and feel
        its capabilities (for example, does it support drag & drop? Or
                how about a spread sheet class?)
        speed
        tools (like the PowerPlant constructor for generating the UI)
        ability to easily create new widgets in C++

Of course Tk provides:
        cross-platform
        it already works
        easy to write code to (Tkinter seems very cleanly laid out)

>the problem with targeting powerplant is that not only is it a lot of
>work, but the framework keeps changing, so its a never ending amount
>of work to do it right.  so unless there's a good resource commitment
>somewhere.. or maybe i'm just showing my bias against anything that
>isn't a cross-platform solution. :-)

That's why I'm trying to leverage off the new scriptability of the IDE so I
can automatically suck out all the useful stuff and generate the module
automagically, so when it changes, there is at most only a small amount of
work to do.  Besides, when a new version of Tk comes out, things have to be
fixed there as well (not that a new version of Tk comes out every three
monthes).  While crossplatform would be nice, it isn't at the top of my
list (i.e., I don't make my living off crossplatform stuff).

At any rate, I'm still trying to nail down the issues and approach before
determining if it is even feasible...

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