How to choose the right GUI toolkit ?

[Eric Brunel]

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:51:31 +0100, Dan Lenski <dlenski at gmail.com> wrote:

> One other thing I'm wondering: how exactly does Tkinter work?  Is the
> whole Tk toolkit bound up as library of low-level C code, or does
> Tkinter sit on top of a Tcl interpreter?

The latter: there is a tiny C layer allowing Python to call an embedded  
tcl interpreter.

> If the latter, that might explain why it is frustratingly slow on
> Cygwin... since Cygwin is not very good at starting up new processes in
> a timely manner.

There is no other process involved: the interpreter is embedded, just as a  
Python interpreter can be embedded in a C application. If you want to work  
with Tkinter on Windows, you'd better avoid Cygwin. Python with Tkinter  
works just fine on Windows, just as it works on any other platform, and is  
fully portable, just as tcl/tk is.

HTH
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