Re: [Chicken-users] cross-platform gui toolkit

[felix winkelmann]

On 2/5/07, Thomas Christian Chust <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Tk is not a small toolkit and it bloats your applications even more
>   because you need a second scripting runtime -- Tcl or Perl -- to use
>   it. I find that only acceptable if I'm programming in Tcl or Perl
>   anyway.
>
> * Tk is not very stable -- some experience with Perl/Tk teaches me that
>   it's extremely easy to produce segfaults and infinite hangs with
>   seemingly correct Tk code for obscure reasons.
>
> * Tk is not very portable -- even screen coordinates for drawing in
>   canvasses work differently on Windows and Unix implementations of Tk.
>
> * I don't like the idea of using the CHICKEN Tk egg for production code
>   because a GUI library should not need to spawn a different language
>   interpreter subprocess and control GUI interaction by reading and
>   writing code to and from a pipe.

* Tk integrates very badly on OS X

* Tk is slow and speaking to it via pipes  doesn't make it very suitable for,
 say, games

That's not to say that Tk is bad as such - but properly not the right thing
if you need "native" access.


cheers,
felix