On 12/16/05, Clemens Fruhwirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be honest, I don't like Tk. This is no rational thing -- so please > don't feel offended by my statement -- but it's emotional. I never > used a program coded with Tk, simply because I dislike it's look and > feel. It does not feel "natural", nor does it appeal my perfect font > gylphs fetishism. I've your are used to Tk, you probably can't follow > this "reasoning", but probably this feeling turns up for you when > imaging one of this toolkits: > Swing, AWT, Athena, McCLIM, Motif. > > I looked at the screenshots of Ltk and found that it's look and feel > hasn't changed. I was surprised to see nice Aqua screenshots for OS X > (although I'd like to see the line drawing done with good anti-aliasing > algorithms like those in the cairo graphics lib). So, probably there is > also a more modern look for X11? I was thinking about Tk on GTK, or Tk > on QT. Googling this failed. (I hope that's just because of bad googling, > otherwise I doubt that I can work on such a project simply because I > don't want to look at it.) >
Indeed, Tk looks very native on Aqua. But have you checked out the Tile engine? (Theming for Tk, contains e.g. a gtk theme) Ltk has some support for it. Anyway, while its beauty may very with the platforms, Tk has a very powerful widget set and the nicest layout managers I have encountered so far. But the main advantage of Ltk is, that it is ready to use :). While it is under active development, it is stable and in commercial use. If one day a viable Lisp binding for QT comes up, I would be very happy, because I can clearly see applications for that, but if a lisper looks for an easy toolkit that is usable right now, then Ltk deserves a look :) Peter _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
