I've played with Ltk and liked it quite a bit. I did run into a performance issue that was specific to my app - I was redrawing the whole screen with text on a canvas too often & sending text to a Tk interpreter. Apart from that it was really nice. Is there a Tk GUI builder? I personally don't write GUIs that often, but I understand that most people prefer to use builders where possible.
I like the idea of integrating Ltk into Lispbox. Brad On 12/13/05, Dwight Holman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/13/05, Jean-François Brouillet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I see it, there is much speaking for Ltk. I haven't actually > > used it, but Tk is working pretty much everywhere, and what I've > > understood from cll reports is that it uses a socket/server approach, > > which is rather portable, and people seem to like it. > > > > I'd like to say McCLIM, but there is a bit more starting distance > > required for that than for a Tk-based approach, I believe. > > I've used Ltk for a project and I like it quite a bit. The source is > easy to understand, and the documentation is a suitable Gardeners > project. > In the break between college semesters I was planning on > reimplementing the standard Tk demo program in Ltk for examples. > (Folks using Ruby-Tk don't even bother to translate the documentation > into English, just this program.) > > I have managed to bundle and/or run applications with Ltk on Windows, > Linux and OS X. > The only requirement is a Tcl/Tk binary. Tclkit works, which means > all requirements can be included in one (small) download. > > McCLIM works well on Mac and Linux, but the most mature backend is the > CLX backend. A dependency on X kills hopes of Windows use (for > beginners). > The toolkit has a very lispy design, but is somewhat unusual in > contrast to mainstream GUIs. That, more than its stability or work > required, is a stumbling block for beginners. > > --Dwight > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
