Re:The Idea of Lisp
by jhbadger on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:40AM
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Pity that it became so associated with the Tk GUI toolkit -- half the Linux GUI apps in the 1990s were in Tcl/Tk, and when Tk fell out of favor so did Tcl.
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Re:The Idea of Lisp
by qwertyuiop924 on Friday December 16, 2016 @02:05PM
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...And with TTK, you can finally have easy-to-write cross-platform UIs that actually look native.
Seriously. If you want a decent cross-platform UI system with minimal effort, which has bindings in just about every language, TK is really worth your time now.
Tk UIs will never be acceptably native as long as scrollbars remain a separate control from the thing being scrolled. This stops OSes deciding where the scrollbars should go based on input device and locale.
On OSX in particular, Tk UIs always stick out like a sore thumb for this reason, even with TTK.
I have looked at it but don't find examples that truly look convincing,and the info in the official page look very sad.
Re:The Idea of Lisp
by qwertyuiop924 on Friday December 16, 2016 @07:12PM
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That's outdated and unofficial. Look at some examples with ttk.
Ok, but where?
TTK is something new?
Should have been made available on the web by some browser vendor in the 90s. Netscape invented a language, Sun wanted to embed Java, but went with the applet approach in lieu of Netscape, Microsoft put vbscript in IE.