On 3 Sep., 18:34, Michael Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As anyone knows, the state of Python GUI programming is a little > fractured at this time, with many toolkits, wrappers and meta-wrappers > dead and alive, with or without documentation.
A few thoughts. 1) This topic is discussed here every few months. While some kind of AnyGUI is theoretically very elegant it hasn't worked out well in practice: GUI libs are huge and heterogeneous. It's much unlike building an API-layer on top of SQL. Moreover I'd like to ask whether the fragmentation turns out to be that much of a problem in practice? 2) Tcl/Tk might have a revival due to the new Tk-theme engine in version 8.5. http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.tml http://wiki.tcl.tk/13636 Chances are Tkinter widgets will not look like early '90s legacy anymore. 3) Following the public rumor mill and the latest hype RIA i.e. the merge of web- and desktop applications with systems like Adobe AIR, JavaFX, Google Gears and MS Silverlight is the future of frontend development. With the exception of IronPython and Silverlight, Python hasn't even entered this game and no one knows if it ever will. Ciao, Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
