Tkinter--does anyone use it for sophisticated GUI development?

sturlamolden sturlamolden at yahoo.no
Sun Oct 22 10:37:08 EDT 2006


Wektor wrote:

> I ment in the GUI context , a widget-based api where you can put
> buttons, labels etc. on a form.

You mean GTK?

GTK 2.8 uses an abstraction layer for drawing widgets called "Cairo".
Cairo can use OpenGL or Quartz as backends (still experimental). Thus,
you can get a hardware-accelerated GUI from PyGTK if you are willing to
use an experimental backend in Cairo. 


http://cairographics.org/




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