>> TK's capabilities and Arthur's capabilities with TK being different >> issues ;)
>Tk is a great cross-platform solution, rock solid and not too hard to use. >However, other cross-platform GUI frameworks exist, are free and open >source, and have their own virtues and vices. Reluctant to go down this road, but: What Arthur uses as a gui toolkit for PyGeo is largely a decision being made by Guido. As mentioned, one of my most primary concerns regarding PyGeo at this point is packaging/distribution. So in the absence of compelling reason to do otherwise, I will stick with the toolkit distributed standard with PyGeo. There are lots of great things being done with other toolkits. And it does seem to me that general concensus would more easily form around wxPython, as truer standard, than TK. Not my battle to fight. And the status of Idle then becomes an issue. But Guido should be made aware if he is not already - since his own writings on education contemplate utilizing 3d graphics - that OpenGL on Tk has become problematic And I guess this is partly an effort to make sure that he is aware of this. (though I am not swearing as to its status as broken/fixed as of today) And I *do* face a crucial functional issue with TK, and only on Linux, as it happens, regarding threading. I may try to present the issue later, to try to get some feedback, and help determine whether the issue is inherent, a limitation of the developer, or a limitation of the particular toolkit. Art. _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
