Why MFC instead of Tkinter -- was Re: Pythonwin?

[Michael A. Crawford]

I'm sorry I asked.

-Michael

"Robert" <soundhack at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:38ff21b8$0$10972 at senator-bedfellow.mit.edu...
> To each his own I guess. I work mostly on Windows platforms, and for me
> MFC is a lot better than Tk for a couple of reasons.
> 1) I can port MFC/C++ programs a lot easier
> 2) I may be mistaken, but MFC based guis are faster than Tk
> 3) I really do not like using layout managers, and using Visual C++'s
dialog
> editor
> is the best thing since sliced bread IMHO.
>
> One suggestion for learning MFC fresh: don't read books that basically
teach
> you how to use Visual C++'s AppWizard. AppWizard is really nice and easy
to
> use but it basically automates so much of creating MFC programs that it
was
> hard (at least for me) to make the transition to a non-wizard MFC
> environment in python.
>
> Robert
>
> Michael A. Crawford wrote in message ...
> >I'm curious.  Why did you not steer him in the Tkinter direction for his
> GUI
> >needs?  Is MFC better?  I learned (and forgot MFC) some time ago, years
in
> >fact.  Same with X-Windows programming.  Now I'm working my way throught
> >"Python and Tkinter Programming" by Grayson.  I thought Tkinter was the
> >preferred method for Pythong GUI programming.  Am I mistaken?
> >
> >-Michael
>
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