Tkui
Dev tools
gui builder
SHOW HN2017
86points
24comments
#528of 2,242 in 2017
Top 24%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Docs: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea for a visual GUI workflow
From 1 comment
Joke or not I've been looking for something like this. Thanks.
gigatexal on HN
Objections
No screenshots or demo in the README
From 3 comments
Why a post about UI, GUI makers, etc. without a single screenshot in the github's README.md?? Please give us a mean to understand in 10 seconds what it's about, by adding a…
josephernest on HN+1 to why no visuals? Having a GUI maker without a single still or animated screen shot is perplexing. Can you add a couple screen shots to the GitHub repo?
eddiep on HNpics or it didnt happen!
stephen123 on HN
Name is confusing because of Tekui, a Lua GUI extension
From 1 comment
The name is a bit misleading as it recalls Tekui which is a (very nice IMO) LUA GUI extension. http://tekui.neoscientists.org/screenshots.html
squarefoot on HN
Requests
Add screenshots or animated GIF to the README
From 2 comments
Why a post about UI, GUI makers, etc. without a single screenshot in the github's README.md?? Please give us a mean to understand in 10 seconds what it's about, by adding a…
josephernest on HN+1 to why no visuals? Having a GUI maker without a single still or animated screen shot is perplexing. Can you add a couple screen shots to the GitHub repo?
eddiep on HN
Provide a video demo
From 2 comments
Any chance of a video demo of this?
MattRix on HNFrom your point of view, everything is clear, because you are the author: you know what you are doing, why, etc. But for a visitor of your github like me, even if I do a lot of…
josephernest on HN
Questions
What GUI makers exist for Smalltalk?
From 1 comment
Indeed! Although I only recently learned of Squeak Smalltalk and variants like Pharo and Cuis (quite a bit after tkui was close to its current state). What GUI maker(s) do you…
asrp on HN
Alternatives named
vTcl
From 1 comment
See also vTcl ( http://vtcl.sourceforge.net ). As an added bonus, Tcl :-)
rkeene2 on HN
wxFormBuilder
From 1 comment
I use wxFormBuilder and export the GUI using XRC (instead of Python). I know it's not exactly 'dynamic', but it's pretty close. First I build my whole GUI project with all the…
kelvin0 on HN
Squeak/Pharo Spec
From 1 comment
I only know spec, which is the framework that Pharo uses. You can find the book here: http://files.pharo.org/books/spec-tutorial/
ekvintroj on HN
IDLE with no subprocess mode
From 1 comment
"idle -n" !? (In case I am being too obscure: Run idle in "no subprocess" mode and then any TKinter widgets your script creates partake of the IDLE editor's Tk mainloop. You get…
carapace on HN