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On 9/13/2013 9:27 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> On 9/11/13 4:55 PM, eamonnrea@gmail.com wrote:
>> Tkinter -- Simple to use, but limited
>
> With the themed widget introduced in Tk 8.5, Tkinter is now a peer to
> the other GUI toolkits in most respects, surpasses them in some (canvas
> widget), and lags behind in just two areas: printing (several
> platform-specific solutions but no cross-platform API) and HTML display
> (a few extensions but no standard widget set).

I would add the ancient and limited image support, both for input and 
canvas output. Modern SVG output instead of ancient (possibly buggy) 
PostScript would be a real improvement.

Otherwise, I have become more impressed with the text widget as I have 
studied the Idle code. Even that does not use everything. I have not 
looked at the text widget in other guis to compare.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy