[PD] Ever divorce from Tcl/Tk? (Was Re: puredata_gui_design)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 6, 2010, at 7:28 PM, András Murányi wrote:

> Tcl/Tk happens to be a good GUI toolkit for making cross-platform  
> apps that appear native on each platform.  From my point of view, we  
> should just implement things better, changing the GUI toolkit is not  
> going to make as big a difference.
>
> .hc
>
> Matju told basically the same so i'm convinced. No Alexandrian  
> solution hhhh :)
> Actually, do you consider the GUI or the GUI-core communication  
> "slow" (ie a large performace potential in optimizing), or is just  
> that we overdrive it sometimes? (Or is it like "smooth or not  
> smooth"? ;o)


Some parts are extremely slow, like array redrawing and moving of  
items on the canvas.  These particular things can sometimes generate 1  
megabyte a second of Tcl code.  The same could be achieved by sending  
the right 1 kilobyte per second, or even less.

.hc


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