On Jan 23, 7:33 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 23, 7:16 pm, Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevin.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 1/23/11 8:12 PM, rantingrick wrote: > > > > The only way i can respond to this is to quite the requirements for my > > > challenge... > > > > --------------------------------------- > > > Challenge 1: (Simple Directory Viewer) > > > --------------------------------------- > > > Create a simple Directory Viewer GUI. You CANNOT use a treectrl! > > > > Any questions? > > > Why not? > > > I'd understand if this code made use of some Tk extension, as that's not > > quite an apples-to-apples comparison. But the treectrl is part of the > > core Tkinter widget set. > > Well wxPython ha a treectrl too. And if we were comparing apples to > apples then we would compare the wx.TreeCtrl to the Tk::TreeCtrl. > However there are many things that a ListCtrl can do that a treectrl > can't. The biggest difference.... COLUMNS > > > There's no reason to exclude it (Tk::TreeCtrl) unless you are > > deliberately trying to handicap Tk in your comparison. > > I am not handicapping TclTk. They already did that themselves by > refusing to keep up with 21st century GUI libraries. Sure, you can > say Tkinter is a knife and wxPython is an AK47 but who's to blame when > you bring a knife to gun fight Kevin? Switch to wx and enjoy the > bloodbath.
"switch to wx and enjoy the bloodbath" That has *got* to be quote-of-the-week material. Sometimes when I've spent a day wrestling with wxPython I do indeed feel like I've been in a bloodbath! (I'm not picking on wxPython per se -- it's what I'm using for my current project -- just that the analogy was perhaps a bit more on target than rantingrick intended :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
