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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:20:03 -0000 (UTC)
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WokieSux282@ud0s4.net <WokieSux283@ud0s4.net> wrote at 23:31 this Monday (GMT):
> On 2/10/25 1:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote at 21:19 this Saturday (GMT):
>> [snip]
>>> My most powerful software was a multi-path checker to a storage system
>>> that held a lot of pension money.
>>>
>>> It was written in bash. =D
>>>
>>> Ok, ok... I wrote a GUI for some kind of batch job mgmt software that IBM
>>> hobbled together in order to trace dependencies, that was done in python.
>> [snip]
>> 
>> 
>> Did you use something like tkinter?
>
>    TKinter works. Not ultra-elegant but functional.
>
>    I've used it for several projects with pop-up
>    windows and touch-screens and such. Did find that
>    you get less grief if you don't CLOSE those windows
>    but just send 'em off to negative screen coords.
>    Then on signal from a touch-screen or timer or
>    whatever you just drag 'em back into view and
>    make whatever updates.
>
>    TK is also pretty well documented since it's been
>    around for awhile. Actually none of the graphics
>    toolkits are particularly 'elegant' or great joys
>    to use so go with what seems easiest for the job.
>
>    Mostly if I need something with a quickie GUI then
>    I use Lazarus/FPC when possible. The WYSIWYG form
>    builder with a zillion possible options is WAY nicer
>    than the line-at-a-time TK approach plus Pascal looks
>    much nicer than Python or 'C'.


I would still probably use TK for a really quick GUI, but I prefer
terminal ui's nowadays.
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