[Pythonmac-SIG] (no subject)

[Tom Fetherston]

>At 4:00 PM -0700 5/31/01, Russell E Owen wrote:
>>Tk on the Mac works fine in many ways, but does have some serious
>>limitations:
>>- I haven't been able to get menus to work reliably (under Tk or
>>Tkinter), so I stick with the default ones. I'd love to know if
>>anyone else has this problem or it's just me.
>>***
>>- Tk applications seem to rather take over the Mac, leaving little
>>time for background tasks. I'm not sure if this can be avoided
>>somehow.
>
>I've heard this a couple of times before and what puzzles me is why
>this would be true in the context of running Tk via Tkinter, yet
>something like Alpha (which I gather is a pure tcl/tk application)
>runs fine (within reasonable limits) on the Mac? In fact, I think
>that I just recently used another Mac tcl/tk application that also
>behaved pretty normally altho I can't recall what it was.
>
The current release of Alpha has an embedded Tcl interpreter, (quite a few
versions back).  There is a port of the code into Tcl/Tk (pure) called
AlphaTk for unix and windows.  Behind the scenes there is an alpha of Alpha
that uses the current Tcl shared libraries.

Tom