Gtk.jl has a more sophisticated internal design and is sometimes 5x or so
faster for certain time-consuming rendering operations. For new code, I would
certainly recommend it over Tk.jl, and I am slowly migrating my older
visualization packages to it.
Best,
--Tim
On Sunday, March 27, 2016 05:09:51 PM Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When it comes to GUI toolkits in Julia, Gtk seems to be the main choice,
> followed by Tk. At least in terms of development effort:
>
> Gtk.jl -- 444 commits, 23 contributors
> Tk.jl -- 235 commits, 28 contributors
> PySide.jl -- 35 commits, 2 contributors
>
>
> Although I like Gtk, I'm curious. Is there a reason Gtk gets more
> attention? Maybe Tk is just easier to support, so it doesn't need as many
> commits. But Tk also has less documentation. So I do get the impression Gtk
> gets more attention. Why would Gtk or Tk be preferred in the context of
> Julia?
>
> My understanding is that Gtk is great on Linux but doesn't work so well on
> Windows and Mac. Tk has historically been considered ugly ("looks like
> Motif") but my impression is that this was fixed long ago. Gtk has more
> widgets than Tk and I think also more inputs. Qt is supposed to be great on
> other platforms. Are C++ toolkits more difficult to support? Oh, there is
> no package for wxWidgets, and that's also a C++ toolkit. Maybe that's a
> factor? Or maybe people just like the look of Gtk.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
