Thread: iLiad Tcl/Tk for iLiad?
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Old 09-28-2009, 03:52 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by ericshliao View Post
I just compiled and installed Tcl/Tk in Scratchbox target for iLiad because they are needed by Python. In fact, I don't know what are they. With some brief review of the official site, I only caught the key word "rapid development".
So, my question is: do we need it for iLiad?
tk is the GUI toolkit tcl language uses [1].
tkinter (tcl/tk for python) is a GUI included in python standard library. It's multiplatform, but not much people uses it nowdays (sorry Antartica, I thought you were younger ;-)

None of the previous iLiad python ports has included it before.
- https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24138
- https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12636
and yours - https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30169

I like python a lot, it's my preferred language, but sadly enough it's somehow slow on the iLiad, that's the reason I learning lua now.
IMO, there is not much interest in tkinter.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_%28framework%29
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