[Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Mon Jan 24 08:40:43 EST 2011


On 1/24/11 1:52 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

>
> Well, I have also tested the program dirbrowser.py, but it is not decent
> at all.
> I have tested it with JAWS screen reader and it is absolutely inaccessible.
>
> The single "accessible" things in it are the title bar which is "tk".
> It can't compare with the same program made using WxPython.
> And it can't be made to be more accessible than it is, because it uses Tk.
>
> So Tkinter is really bad.

If accessibility leads your criteria, then yes, Tk may be deficient. I 
can't speak to this on other platforms or with other toolkits.

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Kevin Walzer
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