On 5/2/06, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A widget toolkit which pre-implements parts of particular applications > does make it easier to implement those applications, I agree. The > question in my mind is whether an application can be built even if > that particular widget is missing. Core vs. useful, I suppose.
My view is entirely opposite. If the control (widget) is provided natively, it needs to be made available to application code. Otherwise it's necessary to reimplement it, and you're never going to get every detail right. This way lies Tk's or Swing's "cross-platform" GUI mess. This is, of course, hard, as platforms offer widely differing widget sets. Tough. Nobody said writing a portable GUI layer was going to be easy. Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
