The ability to print reports is certainly an asset of wx... though I don't find the need to print is as prevalent as it used to be.
Kevin Walzer-5 wrote: > > jimscafe wrote: > >> >> To the more experienced (i.e. people who program for a living), is using >> tk >> a sensible decision? I looked at other gui options, but all seemed >> complicated and not necessarily well documented online. >> Where am I likely to come across things I need to do that will be >> impossible >> in tk (if any)? > > Wx has a few things that Tk does not. Tk lacks an adequate > cross-platform implementation of drag-and-drop and printing, for > instance. There are extensions for these things, but not all of them > have Python wrappers, and they don't work on all platforms. > > That said, for most things Tk--either by itself or with extensions--is > more than adequate. > > >> There doesn't seem to be much development going on in tk, is this a >> potential future problem? > > Tk has actually had a huge number of advances in the past few years: > themed widgets, new widgets such as a tree and table view, and more. > These have started first in the Tcl/Tk world, where Tk is developed, but > these advances are moving out into other languages with Tk bindings. I > would say that Tk is now on par with the other major toolkits, apart > from the issues noted above. > > This site is a good overview to the state-of-the-art in Tk: > http://www.tkdocs.com/ > > Here's the site that documents the effort to integrate these things into > Python: http://gpolo.ath.cx:81/projects/pyttk/ > > --Kevin > -- > Kevin Walzer > Code by Kevin > http://www.codebykevin.com > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/From-wxPython-to-TK-tp22595091p22654059.html Sent from the Python - tkinter-discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
