On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:58:00 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Christopher Subich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Use tkinter if you care about cross-platform operation. Everything >> > else requires downloading and installing separate toolkits. >> >> Oh, the downloading and installing isn't a big deal. If in the >> far-flung future anyone else uses this program, they'll be big boys who >> can install things themselves. :) > > No, it's a big pain. I'm a big boy and gave up on trying to install > wxpython for bittorrent on FC3 (the problem was with wxwidgets needing an > obsolete version of gtk, not with wxpython itself). There's just no > compelling reason to want to deal with this stuff. Tkinter has its warts > but it allows making functional gui's without all that much fuss.
Using tkinter doesn't need downloading and installing only in Windows. In *nix is not so common to have tcl/tk installed (and probably in Mac too) GUI cross platform need external support, in a OS or in another. Bye, Riccardo -- Riccardo Galli Sideralis Programs http://www.sideralis.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
