FWIW, as all these emails were arriving I was busy working on an application for a customer that consists of 25K+ lines of Tcl/Tk plus some C extensions. The whole thing compiles into a standalone binary that is right at 4MiB. SQLite is used as the application file format. (That is to say, when you do File/Open to select a file to work on, that file is really an SQLite database file, even though the end user doesn't realize it.) The program features advanced graphics including interactive 3-D visualization using OpenGL and the 3D-Canvas extension to Tcl/Tk. (http://3dcanvas.tcl.tk/) Runs on Linux and Win32. I was planning to port to Mac OSX next week. (There are some issues getting the 3dcanvas to work there.) The GUI has a gray-metal desk look to it, but it is quite functional and the customer is very pleased. It wouldn't take much work to give the GUI more eye-candy, but as the program is intended for use by a limited set of engineers within a laboratory environment, that is not a goal of the project.
If you can tolerate a 4MiB standalone (much smaller if you don't need all the extensions I'm using) then Tcl/Tk is an excellent choice. My code would be much larger and considerably less functional in wxPython. I've never used lua and cannot comment on it. You should, of course, use whatever toolkit you are most comfortable with. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
