Tkinter vs. wxPython (was: Which GUI?)

[Bernhard Herzog]

Guido van Rossum <guido at cnri.reston.va.us> writes:

[...]
> Arguments against Tkinter:
[...]
> - It doesn't let you handle your own paint events; you have to use the
> canvas widget.  Occasionally (as when drawing animations or large
> bitmaps) that's annoying and slow, because you have to create and
> destroy tons of small objects.

It isn't very difficult to work around this limitation with a
C-extension module, at least in a platform specific manner. Sketch for
instance has such an extension module for Unix/X platforms which is
largely based on the X-extension. It lets you effectively implement a
widget completely in Python including handlers for exposure events.

If anybody's interested, I can easily release it separately from Sketch.


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