Re: [ECOS] FOSDEM 2003 report

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

David N. Welton wrote:
> > However I know Bart has plans to try and do more TCL/Tk things,
> > particularly given the future requirements of CDL scripts. However
> > pretty much everyone else doesn't like the non-native look-and-feel
> > of TK widgets.
>
>
> My impression was that modern Tcl/Tk versions have pretty good native
> look and feel on Windows.

The omens aren't good on Unix when it comes to GNOME/GTK or KDE, but 
perhaps that's a little too much to hope :-).

Does anyone have an example of a really good Tk app on Windows? With 
screen shots? I've found TkPaint 
<http://mars.netanya.ac.il/~samy/tkpaint.html> which I admit looks better 
than I remember from the last time I ran TCL, but some of the fonts still 
look odd for example (could be that particularl user's setup).

Although the other factor I didn't mention but is relevant to consider is 
drawing/update speed. Tk apps have had a tendency to feel slow and clunky. 
If this is all resolved then indeed going with Tk would be perfectly 
alright IMO!

Jifl
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