[PLUG] Simple graphics programming?

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:57, Bill Spears wrote:

> Why do you say this?  I'm just curious because I was using Python with
> Tk and because of the nature of my use it was really slow, so much so,
> that I'm considering switching to wxPython.

Scriptics, the company Ousterhout form to support Tcl/Tk, went out of
business a year or more ago.  The death of Scriptics is by no means an
end to the language, but there just isn't a lot of talk about it and I
don't know of anyone actually learning it or using it actively.

Tk itself has problems, due to the lack of Unicode support; not to
mention the grumbling all around about it being a poor API and slow.

I don't follow the Python lists closely, but I do recall reading a
discussion about moving the default Python GUI library to wxWindows.

> > The GTK library is also *very* nice.
> It has Python bindings doesn't it? Have you used it?

I have; well, I used the Glade interface.  I haven't really done much
GUI development, so I didn't get very far in the 8-16 hours I played
with it.  I do know PyGTK is the preferred toolkit by Red Hat; it's used
by the GUI admin tools and Anaconda.

Wil
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