Kevin Walzer wrote: > I'm a Tcl/Tk developer who has been working, slowly, at learning Python, > in part because Python has better support for certain kinds of > applications that I want to develop than Tcl/Tk does. Naturally, I > thought that I would use Tkinter as the GUI for these programs. However, > in doing research into GUI development techniques, sample code, and > showcase applications, what has struck me is how little sophisticated > GUI development seems to be done in Tkinter as compared to, say, > wxPython. I've found plenty of tutorials on how to do basic GUI stuff > with Tkinter, but that stuff pretty much ends with the core Tk widgets > (buttons, entry fields, scrollbars, and menu items). > > Coming from Tcl/Tk, where there are a huge number of extension packages > to enhance the Tk widgets and which allow you to make really polished > GUI's, I'm struck mainly by how little of this stuff has made it over > into Tkinter/Python. For instance, I've developed several Tcl > applications that use the core Tk widgets, the Tile theming package, the > Bwidget set (great tree widget and listbox, which allows you to embed > images), and tablelist (an extremely flexible muti-column listbox > display). I've found Python wrappers for some of this stuff, but almost > no documentation on how to use them, and very little in the way of > actual applications making use of them--which is itself a red flag. And > most of the pure-Python extension stuff that I've found, such as Python > megawidgets, is pretty dated/ugly and lags far behind the comparable > stuff on the Tcl side. > > Am I better off biting the bullet and learning wxPython--a different GUI > paradigm to go with the new language I'm trying to learn? I had hoped to > reduce my learning curve, but I'm very concerned that I simply can't do > what I want to do with Tkinter. What do other Tkinter developers think?
Tkinter is certainly dated (?), worst than PMW which is built upon it. But what do you what/need? I use , and am making my students use Tkinter for a web multiu-user client-server XXXX game. The Canvas is a great object, but you have to write the code yourself, if you want a special look. Eye-candy, Tkinter ain't, and it doesn't have a lot of sophisticated widgets (again ?) . I wanted a tabbed pane last year and made myself one (not the exact look of others, but functional if what you want is multiple frames of widgets for each tab; the table widget took quite a bit of doing, also and it's not an Excel spreadsheet) I do know that people are impressed by glitz and glamour (And I don't have a nice tree (with picture) widget) But all of this does forget that Tkinter is still in the standard library, while all others are third-party add-ons... so there is a extra hassle with them... So, what do You want? (widgets, criterias etc) Jean-Marc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
