[PD-dev] [PD] tkwidgets

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: yvan volochine <yvan.pd at gmail.com>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pd-dev List <pd-dev at iem.at>
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] [PD-dev] tkwidgets
> 
> On 08/26/2011 07:28 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>>>  It might be a good idea to list the problems with tcl/tk so we can 
> weigh them against the difficulty of using a different GUI toolkit.  The 
> problems I see are:
>>>>  * difficult to implement a decent zoom function for a canvas
>>>>  * can't display png without the Img library (included in 8.6)
>>>>  * can't do alpha transparency
>>> 
>>>  * you have to write ugly code ?
>> 
>>  Could you expand on that?
> 
> 1- there was a touch of humour in that sentence..
> 2- tcl-tk is a bit too procedurial for my taste (without any extensions 
> I mean). just look at Qt or ruby-qt or python-qt and I'm sure you'll 
> know what I mean.

There is core OO support in 8.6, which is currently at Beta 2.

> 3- I always found tk GUIs really ugly (but maybe that's just me)

But are we talking 8.4, or >= 8.5?  As far as look and feel they 

might as well be two entirely different toolkits.

> 
> again, my 2 cents,
> 
> cheers,
> _y
>