Re: TK vs. Web pages

[TGI]

Web apps are great, I've used them to solve a number of probems. Stand alone gui apps are also very useful. It really depends on the sort of problems you are trying to solve.

If your app is designed to operate on one person's data on one computer, a web app adds a siginificant overhead that isn't necessary. "To run my calculator program, you must first install apache..."

If your app is designed to be run by many people simultaneously accessing shared resources, a web app is very probably the best way to go.

Of course, web apps do still suffer from relatively limited UI options. Not that pTk is an ultra modern GUI library or anything, but some types of interaction are easier to set up properly using a traditional application. The big question is whether the network client code you have to write is worth the tradeoff you make when you eschew the browser as a platform.

If you decide to go the GUI app route, there are a number of options for GUI libraries. You can read some discussion of GUI library choice at "Tk alternative?" and at "Some pre-project questions". SuperSearch should turn up abundant discussion on the issue of GUI library choice.

[apl]

Many thanks. You are a gentleman and a scholar.