Thomas Bartkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> "William Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Jerry He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm a little curious, why does most scripting
> > > languges(i.e. python and ruby) use Tcl/Tk rather than
> > > wx or Fox as its standard GUI? Although I did notice
> > > that the Vpython IDE that uses Tkinker starts up a lot
> > > faster than the DrPython IDE that uses wxpython. But
> > > that makes no sense, Tk is based on Tcl, a scripting
> > > language, but wx is written in C++.
> >
> > Old habits die hard. Soon, these folks will die off, and we'll be left
> > with GTK+ or wxWidgets.
> >
>
> Ahhh! That devilish little "or"
>
> If we only knew which one :-)
> Thomas Bartkus
If you're C, then GTK+. If you're C++, then wxWidgets. Since I do C
mostly, I looked into GTK+ (actually, stared at the doc for 2 weeks and
absorbed what I can through osmosis) and decided to include GTK+
interface into Bash shell. Here is the result:
http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#gtk
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ThinFlash: Linux thin-client on USB key (flash) drive
http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/thinflash.html
BashDiff: Super Bash shell
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
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