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Subject: Try "Python"

Author: Normand M. Blais

Date: 11:31:57 04/18/02

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On April 18, 2002 at 11:32:10, Roy Eassa wrote:

>
>In developing a simple GUI to invokes Chest, I have become disgusted with Visual
>Basic due to its reliance on various libraries being installed and registered on
>the end user's system.
>
>I have no programming experience with Tck/Tk but have begun to explore it.  I
>have two early questions:
>
>1.) Is there an acknowledged "best" free Tcl/Tk development environment (IDE,
>whatever) for Win32 systems?  (A link to a site that compares Tcl/Tk
>installations would be fine.)
>
>2.) Can one use it to create a stand-alone .exe GUI application (that does NOT
>rely on .DLLs NOR require an installer) that an end-user lacking Tcl/Tk can run
>on his system?  If so, how?  (A link to a site that answers this would be fine.)
>
>TIA!
>
>  -Roy.

Hi,

You should consider Python. It's available on all platform (I think). There is
an extension of TK for Python (Tkinter). It's (GNU) freeware.

    http://www.python.org

Normand









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