[PYTHONMAC-SIG] PowerPlant?

Robin Friedrich friedric@rose.rsoc.rockwell.com
Tue, 24 Sep 1996 07:58:29 -0500


|> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:06:59 -0600
|> From: Mark Roseman <roseman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
|> 
|> Glenn wrote:
|> > Considering how unappealing the Tkinter stuff is for a mac application, one
|> > alternative would be to leverage off an existing framework, namely
|> > PowerPlant..
|> 
|> pardon my ignorance, what about the tkinter stuff doesn't work well,
|> or is it just the lack of proper native look and feel, which is coming
|> along at sun?

>From what I've seen the tkinter stuff on the Mac consumes way too much
resource (both memory and cpu) to be practical for anything but tinkering.
I would really like to see a toolbox native GUI builder for Python but 
that almost inhibits any crossplatform options without a lot of work.
(What happened with wxPython for the Mac? btw)


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