Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-25 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 1/24/11 11:58 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> From: "Ethan Furman" >> Please do not repost rr's crap in its entirety, or you'll find yourself >> added to many killfiles -- just like he is. > I am not posting anyone's crap. I just informed why Tkinter is bad. > And I also don't say that WxPython

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-24 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Ethan Furman" > Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> From: "rantingrick" >>> WxPython versus Tkinter (A code battle to the death!) >>> >>> by Rick Johnson. > [...] > > Octavian, > > Please do not repost rr's crap in its entirety, or you'll find yourself > added to many killfiles -- just like he i

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-24 Thread Ethan Furman
Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: "rantingrick" WxPython versus Tkinter (A code battle to the death!) by Rick Johnson. [...] Octavian, Please do not repost rr's crap in its entirety, or you'll find yourself added to many killfiles -- just like he is. ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-24 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/24/11 1:52 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: Well, I have also tested the program dirbrowser.py, but it is not decent at all. I have tested it with JAWS screen reader and it is absolutely inaccessible. The single "accessible" things in it are the title bar which is "tk". It can't compare with t

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-23 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Kevin Walzer" I found this code in the Demo/tkinter/ttk directory of the Python 2.7.1 source distribution. I'm NOT the author (credit should probably go to Guilherme Polo, developer of the Tkinter wrapper for the ttk themed widgets that is now in the stdlib). But, using a tree/listview

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-23 Thread Kevin Walzer
I found this code in the Demo/tkinter/ttk directory of the Python 2.7.1 source distribution. I'm NOT the author (credit should probably go to Guilherme Polo, developer of the Tkinter wrapper for the ttk themed widgets that is now in the stdlib). But, using a tree/listview widget that is part of

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-23 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
rantingrick schrieb: [snip] 1. You cannot define the terms--restrict your opponent-- and battle it yourselves. 2. Your specified directory browser is useless. --At least define that the directory browser must have constant complexity to work with volatile data over a network...

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-23 Thread Stefan Behnel
rantingrick, 23.01.2011 01:07: I have in many threads declared that Tkinter (and TclTk) is currently --and has been for a decade-- the wrong choice for Python's stdlib GUI. [...] It is time to prove once and for all how dated and worthless Tkinter is compared to wxPython. What's the aim of tha

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-22 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "rantingrick" > > WxPython versus Tkinter (A code battle to the death!) > > by Rick Johnson. > > I have in many threads declared that Tkinter (and TclTk) is currently > --and has been for a decade-- the wrong choice for Python's stdlib > GUI. Throughout the 90's Tkinter was fine. However

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-22 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/22/2011 7:07 PM, rantingrick wrote: Near the beginning of this thread, I gently challenged you to produce a concrete, practical proposal for an stdlib addition that could be critiqued and improved. When you asked for problems with wxwidgets/wxpython, I gave some. Still waiting. So PUT

[Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-22 Thread rantingrick
WxPython versus Tkinter (A code battle to the death!) by Rick Johnson. I have in many threads declared that Tkinter (and TclTk) is currently --and has been for a decade-- the wrong choice for Python's stdlib GUI. Throughout the 90's Tkinter was fine. However we have been in the 21st century for