From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2000-07-23T19:26:21-07:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04181] Re: Partly converted English Ruby/Tk widget demo  working.

Conrad Schneiker wrote:

> Hi,
> ...
> So what do others think about Tk versus GTK?
> ...
> Conrad

I have heard that the Mac version of Tk has many problems, though never having
used it, I don't really know.  Also, the Python IDE, IDLE, which depends on Tk
for most things, uses Scintilla when it wants to print on Windows machines.  (I
don't remember whether Scintilla is currently integrated or not.  The last time
I examined this point closely, it wasn't.   OTOH, wxPython has an IDE which
prints successfully on windows...I don't know about Linux, or the Mac.  gtk, of
course, works quite well on Linux, and even has the glade GUI builder.  But
various folk have disparaged it to me on Windows (others praise it -- so??).

My current take on the situation is that within a few months (how many???) gtk
will be the highly favored choice.  But right now there doesn't actually seem
to be ANY good choice.  Not for a development system.  Do whatever is easiest
right now, and prepare to throw it away when a real cross-platform graphics
solution comes along (Modularize!  Modularize!  Modularize!).  (Who knows,
maybe it will be  a stripped down Mozilla.  Maybe X window will port
everywhere.  Maybe something really other.)

-- Charles Hixson