On 5/18/2013 10:03 AM, Beinan Li wrote:
Not sure if this is the right place to talk about this.
It is.
Even less sure if I can
move this discussion to tkinter list,
The idea of replacing tkinter is not about improving tkinter ;-).
Do you think tkinter is going to be the standard python built-in gui
solution as long as python exists?
AT the moment, there is nothing really comparable that is a realistic
candidate to replace tkinter. Tkinter is a tcl-based c gui library. wx
and qt4 are gui application frameworks that include a gui library -- and
much more that duplicate part of Python's stdlib. They, and consequently
their Python wrappers, are too big. That is quite aside from the fact
that the authors of the wrappers have good reason to not donate their
code, but stay independent.
PyGui was designed as a gui library comparable to tkinter and a possible
replacement. But according to the web page, it is still not completely
ready for py 3 (the last update was July 2011).
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/
I think a tkinter replacement should be written for at least 3.4+, so it
can use the new 3.3 unicode implementation and use or at least integrate
with the new 3.4 event loop that will be part of the planned new async
library.
One test for any new gui library is whether idle can be rewritten in it.
It heavily uses the tag features of the tk text widget.
TJR
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