From: John <john_ludlow@...>
Date: 2006-04-08T02:52:32+09:00
Subject: Re: is GUI a weak point?

> In defense of Tk, I gather from your comments that you arae using the
> core Tk.  

You gather correctly/

> There are
> plenty of packages (many of whicih exist for Ruby/Tk) which provide
> higher level widgets such as superior list boxes, trees, etc.  For
> example BLT, Iwidgets, Bwidgets, ...  I view Tk as a lower level
> toolkit than Fox and others, just as X11 is an even lower level
> toolkit below Tk.

Hmmm....  Well, the port is done.  If I'd looked into it properly, I 
might have found those and gone that way instead.  But I'd already seen 
Fox mentioned, and decided to give it a try, and it turned out ok.

Luckily, I'm expecting 90% of my work (build engineering, really) to be 
command-line based tools or libraries to use in Rake, and a few GUI 
utilities such as Rakedep.  I'm waiting for the DamageControl project to 
come back to life, and I might modify my tool to import Rake projects 
into that.

But, really, if Fox turns out to be not as good then it's really not 
going to be a big deal for me.

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