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From: gmcm at hypernet.com (Gordon McMillan)
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Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:21:39 -0500
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Subject: Defining VCL-like framework for Python
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In-Reply-To: <7i9nn5$a9m$1@cronkite.cc.uga.edu>
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Message-ID: <1284566566-14340165@hypernet.com>
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X-UID: 1945
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Graham asks:
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> Gordon McMillan (gmcm at hypernet.com) wrote:
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> : Tk is a GUI toolkit. You are completely in charge of creating
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> your : widgets and making things interact. Complete control, lots of
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> code. : : A GUI framework is a pre-built skeleton. Much less code
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> (usually): : you override this here and that there and if you're
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> lucky, that's all : there is to it.
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>
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> So how does a framework differ from a GUI toolkit with several
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> abstraction layers?
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A Framework abstracts the app (all the way up to main()). If the
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model fits, you can have complete working apps with amazingly little
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code. Some frameworks are more adaptable than others.
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wxWindows is an example of a good one (from my limited experience
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with it). I won't name any bad ones, because people get as religious
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about frameworks as they do about editors.
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- Gordon
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