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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>> University of Leeds, Astbury Building,
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