Re: [Caml-list] Re: Tcl/Tk and RH 9

[Christoph Bauer <c_bauer@informatik.uni-kl.de>]

Hi,

>> 
>> RedHat is free to decide whatever they want, but Tk is still the
>> simplest way to develop some software. Tcl/Tk itself is in version
>> 8.4, it had unicode support earlier than Gtk, and is still under
>> active development, and I see no need to kill it.
>
> I do. First, it isn't threadable. 

That's neither true (configure your Tcl/Tk with --enable-threads) nor
necessary for GUI stuff. I'm quite happy with after and fileevent
mechanism.

> Second, whilst the widgets it supports are good, its widget set is

Text widget and canvas widget are great.

> not only small, it doesn't have certain crucial widgets.  There is
> no tree widget, for example, you need Tix for that.
>
> The extension model is unusable. No one can write
> Tk extensions. In the whole of its life, hardly any
> have been written.
>
> OTOH, there is wide community support for Gtk.

With Tk it's much easier to create a GUI than with gtk (and even
labtgtk). There is a project called Gnocl (gtk for Tcl)> It tries
to combine the best of both toolkits: (loosly) modeled after the
Tk API, but based on the better looking and more complete gtk.

regards,
Christoph

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