evaluating gui modules, any experience on tkinter?

[Norm]

For wxPython, there is a book  "wxPython in Action"  published by
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Norm wrote:
> krishnakant Mane wrote:
> > hello all,
> > I seam to have noticed this a bit late but it appears to me that
> > tkinter is being used very widely for gui development on all platform?
> > is that right?
> > since fredric lundh has written a very good introduction to tkinter
> > (was that just an intro?), I have got keen interest to know the
> > following.  may be fredric himself might put some light on these
> > points.
> > 1. I seriously don't intend to start a flame war but does tkinter
> > stand up to the standards of heavy gui development?  can I have an
> > entire mdi application working fine with tkinter?  I know wxpython can
> > do it and I have heard enough about pyqt, but tkinter seams to be very
> > rich in gui objects.
> > 2.  as usual I always look out for accessibility when it comes to gui
> > design.  will tkinter be useful for blind people?  I mean, are gui
> > apps in tkinter accessible on windows?
> > 3.  I don't know if I need any thing else as dependencies on my
> > windows machine.  I am using python24 and I did not find any thing
> > about installation in the introduction to tkinter.  can some one give
> > me the process of installing tkinter and all necessary things?
> > 4. is tkinter absolutely compatible with windows gui?  does it call on
> > native api for native look and feel?  in that case I think
> > accessibility issue is automatically solved.
> > I am looking out gui library for some serious application development.
> >  one is an erp system and the other is a customer relation management
> > system.
> > so I am confused between wxpython pyqt and now tkinter.
> > out of the 3 I only found qt talking extencively about accessibility,
> > but did not find a way to install qt in the first place.  I could not
> > compile qt nor did I find any run-time dlls for mingw so that I can
> > use it out of the box.
> > wxpython is the poorest in documentation and tkinter seams to be best at that.
> > please give me some advice.
> > thanking all.
> > Krishnakant.