Linux/Windows GUI programming: tk or wx?

[Igor Korot]

Hi, Grant,

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2017-08-05, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well tk is already an optional part of the Python standard library,
>> whereas wx is an external package.  So for your simple requirements,
>> Tk may be the way to go.
>
> I find it much easier to get a simple application written and working
> with Tk than with wx.  However, once the size/complexity increases
> beyond a certain point, I find wx to be less work.

What version of wx/python did you try?
It is very easy to work with wx{Python, Phoenix} no matter which application
{complexity} we are talking about.

There are a lot of samples/demos on the wxpython web site.

Thank you.

>
>> I'm guessing the tk would result in the
>> smallest executable as well, though I could be very wrong.
>
> The last time I compared wx vs tk bundled sizes using py2exe (for a
> fairly simple application), using tk generated far larger .exe files.
>
> When you use Tk, it pulls in a complete TCL implementation as well as
> the Tk libraries (which contain way more library files than wx --
> IIRC, there was a _lot_ of localization stuff in the Tk libraries).
>
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