GUIs - A Modest Proposal

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Andreas Waldenburger ha scritto:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:00:37 -0700 (PDT) rantingrick
> <rantingrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 11, 12:17 am, ant <shi... at uklinux.net> wrote:
>>> I like the points about backwards compatibility. Presumably that
>>> reason alone is enough to keep Tkinter in the standard library for a
>>> long while.
>> I don't see why that is a good reason. Download Tkinter and your
>> backward compatible again. The majority don't use it anyway. I would
>> bet that only myself, Kevin, and only a handful of others use Tkinter
>> for anything more than education purposes.
> 
> I have a strong suspicion that Tkinter may be used a lot more than is
> made public (isn't anything?). I'm especially thinking about scientists
> who write special purpose data processing or control programs with
> basic GUIs. These things don't have to be pretty or anything and it is
> a HUGE advantage if you don't have to jump through any hoops to get it
> to run on different platforms.
> 
> /W
> 

e.g.:

http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~hpl/INF5660/PyBasics.pdf

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