Craf, > I find a tool Tkinter extremely cool and functional, which I am discovering > little by little every day.
Same here!!! I share your enthusiasm for this tool and I'm on a similar path of discovery (hence all my posts on this mailing list<g>). BTW: Another good resource for Tkinter help and code snippets is stackoverflow.com. Search on 'tkinter' or 'ttk'. > One question that comes to me, is why very few people work with this tool? My impression is that many, many, many more people use Tkinter than post on this mailing list :) I've read where Guido (inventor of Python) has stated that Tkinter is by far the most popular GUI framework for Python and the number of Tkinter developers could number in the hundreds of thousands. With support for tile (ttk) now available in Python 2.7 and 3.1, I believe Tkinter is on par with its "competitors" in the Python GUI framework world such as wxPython, pyQt, and pyGUI. Sure, these other frameworks may have more widgets, but how many of these extra widgets are required (or actually get used) in real business applications (even applications where eye candy is preferred)? I believe that most of eye candy requirements can be met with standard ttk (and tk) widgets, high quality icon sets, and reasonable choices for colors, fonts, and padding. In addition to the benefits mentioned by Michael Lange (reliability, stability and quick coding), I would also add ease of deployment as a (business) critical benefit. Tkinter is bundled with all common Python distributions, so its a deployment detail one doesn't need to worry about. Tkinter apps can also be easily "frozen" (at least under Windows where my experience lies). Alternative Python GUI frameworks are often quite difficult to deploy, add significantly to the deployment footprint of an application, and are a major source of support issues. Another benefit of Tkinter vs. other GUI frameworks is that Tkinter is the only GUI framework available for Python 3.x. (also available in 32 and 64 bit versions). > Anyone know of companies that use in their development. AwarePro.com (a startup where I work<g>). Malcolm _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
