Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon wrote: > It's not because it likes to be in charge, it's because there's no other > way to do it in Python.
As I said: this is simply not true. > Tkinter is a special case among GUI toolkits because it is married to > Tcl. It doesn't just need to handle its GUI events, it also needs to run > the Tcl interpreter in between. That statement is somewhat deceiving: there isn't much interpreter to run, really. > Which is why Tkinter needs to be in > charge of the event loop. For other GUI toolkits, I don't see a reason > why they'd need their own event loop. They need to fetch events from the operating system level, and dispatch them to the widgets. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
