Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:48:49 04/18/02
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On April 18, 2002 at 14:31:57, Normand M. Blais wrote: >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 Choices, choices! Python I have glanced at in the past and my household has a couple decent books for, so in that regard it might be better than Tcl. It looks like either way I'd be using Tk as well... Thaks for the advice. Could anybody weigh in briefly about the trade-offs between using Python/Tk versus using Tcl/Tk?
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