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Tcl/Tk 9.1

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  1. trebligdivad · · focus · HN ↗
    Tcl/Tk has got to be the easiest GUI system out there; you can get simple stuff going with no effort - nothing I've seen comes close to that simplicity.

    Good to see it's getting some modern support.

    1. Dwedit · · focus · HN ↗
      What about oldschool Visual Basic?
      1. pjmlp · · focus · HN ↗
        Besides the sibling comment, VB.NET is still around, even if not with the attention it once had.

        VB + C# with Windows Forms is not much different from old school VB.

        And for the pixel positioning complaints, it is about time people learn about FlowLayoutPanel and TableLayoutPanel, they exist since .NET 2.0 (2005).

        1. bitwize · · focus · HN ↗
          That's new-school VB. Tcl was doing automatic widget layout back when VB was using absolute "dialog units" for everything.
          1. pjmlp · · focus · HN ↗
            To be more pedantic that was taken from Motif layout managers, and old school VB did have layout managers available, however a large majority only dragged and dropped from the toolbox.
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