Edward d'Auvergne wrote:
Well, a canvas that draws using OpenGL.
well there is togl *togl*.sourceforge.net/ and python has open gl
bindings via ctypes now i believe ;-)
http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ctypes/development.html
regards
gary
On 11/22/06, Edward d'Auvergne <edward.dauvergne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All that's needed is an OpenGL widget.
On 11/22/06, Gary S. Thompson <garyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Edward d'Auvergne wrote:
>
> > It's about time they overhauled Tk. I haven't been keeping current
> > with Tcl/Tk development, I thought that that had stalled.
Version 8.5
> > can't come soon enough! Unfortunately at http://wiki.tcl.tk/2237
they
> > say that Tk3D only runs on Unix/Linux, and I don't know how
capable it
> > is.
> >
> > Edward
> >
> the tk3d you maybe thinking of is a way of rendering widgets so they
> look 3d?? (I had that confusion when I fiorst looked at some of the
tk docs)
> there is also http://public.kitware.com/VTK/what-is-vtk.php which is
> extremely capable
>
> regards
> gary
>
> >
> > On 11/22/06, Gary S. Thompson <garyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Edward d'Auvergne wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 11/22/06, Gary S. Thompson <garyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Edward d'Auvergne wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Are you having a play with the unittest GUI?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> I was just having a go to see that it worked. The version I was
> >> using,
> >> >> however, is under the wrong license (I stole it from zope I
think)
> >> so it
> >> >> was just a test of the code/concept and will most probably
disappear
> >> >> again.
> >> >>
> >> >> > If so, is it any good?
> >> >> > Pity it's in Tk though,
> >> >>
> >> >> Why the problem with tk? Tk is nice (mostly) and is present
in all
> >> >> python distributions (note the prejudice, I am an old tcl/tk
> >> programmer)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > There's nothing wrong with Tk. Wish was the first widget set
I played
> >> > with, and I do think it is very useful for certain
applications. Tk
> >> > does need to be modernised though, it desperately needs font
> >> > antialiasing! And the Tk widgets could do with a lot of polish.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Have you looked at version 8.5 a lot of this is going in
there... beta
> >> testing is supposed to be fairly soon ;-)
> >>
> >> http://wiki.tcl.tk/12753
> >> Themed Tk (a.k.a. Ttk <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14796> in the core).
TIP#248
> >> [81 <http://tip.tcl.tk/248>]
> >>
> >> http://www.markroseman.com/tcl/guide85.html
> >> *Antialiased text under X11.* This allows Tk to fit in much
better with
> >> modern Linux desktops; the lack of antialiased fonts has been a
frequent
> >> criticism recently. Based on Xft. (don't lnow about mac or windows)
> >>
> >> regards
> >> gary
> >>
> >> > I ported an early version of relax (0.2 which was called 'mf'
back
> >> > then) to use the Gtk widget set. I called it 'xmf' but
unfortunately
> >> > I never added it to the relax repository. It was pretty
pathetic -
> >> > not destroying flexibility while implementing a GUI is a very
hard
> >> > job. Qt support in Python was and still is light years ahead
of Tk,
> >> > Gtk, etc. Implementing a complex GUI for relax would
significantly
> >> > benefit from using the advanced Qt bindings. For 3D opengl
work, for
> >> > example assembling data pipes (when runs are renamed to pipes) to
> >> > create the equivalent of a script, the stable Qt bindings
would be
> >> > better for sanity of the developers :)
> >> >
> >> > Edward
> >> >
> >> > .
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >
> > .
> >
>
>
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