Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Killing Togl for Python 2.3 release and gett ing 2.0.1 out the door...

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@ro...>]

Rodgers, Kevin wrote:

>Is there any alternative to Togl for Tkinter users, or does dropping Togl
>mean I either have to drop Tkinter or drop Python 2.3?
>  
>
At the moment, you'll have to drop Tkinter (dropping Python 2.3 seems 
pointless, as it's the future).  If at some point someone were to get 
Togl building with Tk 8.4, the PyOpenGL Togl widget would be usable 
again (it's just a Python wrapper that calls through Tk to the Tk Togl 
widget).  There is at least one other Tk OpenGL widget (i.e. not Togl, a 
different OpenGL binding), but I have neither interest nor time to 
devote to wrapping it.

Honestly, in my opinion, Togl has been more pain than it's worth for a 
*long* time now, especially given that most GUI Python developers have 
long since moved away from Tk to wxPython, PyGame, PyGTK and/or PyQT.  
Tk's only strong recommendation for Python GUI development these days is 
that it's (still) bundled with the core distribution.

Togl (the underlying Tk widget) is basically dead as a project, and I'm 
not interested in becoming a deep TCL-C-API developer just to maintain 
it, so I can't see investing more time in maintaining the wrapper as a 
great investment of my rather tiny amounts of PyOpenGL time.

Good luck with whichever path you choose,
Mike

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