I use Tk routinely in Scheme; there is no Tcl in my code, but Tk is a very nice (though basic) GUI kit, and my programs work on Linux, BSD, MacOS, and Windows. Other commenters have mentioned that Python ships with Tkinter, a library module that interfaces to Tk. I believe Ruby does the same. Hell, if you're programming in Cobol, you can have Tk (as long as your Cobol allows you to call C). You do not have to love Tcl to love Tcl/Tk.

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ofalkaed a day ago | parent | next [-]

>you can have Tk (as long as your Cobol allows you to call C).

No C required, you can just connect to the UI through a socket and often skip the FFI completely. This is my preferred way to use Tk and I don't even consider anything else unless there is a reason. Working this way also has the nice side effect of making the application UI agnostic.

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WalterGR a day ago | parent | next [-]

But then you have an entire front end written in Tcl or some other non-COBOL language (to continue the above example,) right?

Or is there a way to run Tk as a daemon?

	▲	ofalkaed a day ago \| parent [-]
		Believe you have to do that anyways unless you are going to create full language bindings as tkinter and the like do. I don't know the Tk API in full but I don't believe it provides ways to create widgets, just interact with them more directly. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will fill in the gaps here, I learned what I needed of the Tk API and called it good.

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em-bee a day ago | parent | prev [-]

that sounds interesting. can you give an example please?

	▲	ofalkaed a day ago \| parent [-]
		PureData is a good example.

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em-bee a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

in what way is Tk basic? can you elaborate? also what are your thoughts on the issues with python as mentioned in the article? how do the scheme bindings compare?

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forinti a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When I first found out about Tcl/Tk, it was used to give a GUI to programs written in C. I've used Tk with Tcl and many times with Perl too.

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kevin_thibedeau a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> interfaces to Tk

It interfaces to its own internal Tcl interpreter that runs Tk. You can even feed it arbitrary non-Tk commands to eval.

This is a legacy of the trouble Perl/Tk had splitting it out as an independent library which the Tcl devs didn't want to support.

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fuzztester 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Python ships with Tkinter, a library module that interfaces to Tk. I believe Ruby does the same.

Perl too, IIRC.

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piloto_ciego a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a fun idea! Are you using Guile-tk?