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@@ -25,27 +25,26 @@ For more info about Tk, including pointers to the source, see the Tcl/Tk home
page at http://www.tcl.tk. Tcl/Tk is fully portable to the MacOS, Windows, and
Unix platforms.
-wxWindows
+wxWidgets
'''''''''
-wxWindows is a portable GUI class library written in C++ that's a portable
-interface to various platform-specific libraries; wxWidgets is a Python
-interface to wxWindows. wxWindows supports Windows and MacOS; on Unix variants,
-it supports both GTk+ and Motif toolkits. wxWindows preserves the look and feel
-of the underlying graphics toolkit, and there is quite a rich widget set and
-collection of GDI classes. See `the wxWindows page <http://www.wxwindows.org>`_
-for more details.
+wxWidgets is a GUI class library written in C++ that's a portable
+interface to various platform-specific libraries, and that has a
+Python interface called `wxPython <http://www.wxpython.org>`__.
-`wxWidgets <http://wxwidgets.org>`_ is an extension module that wraps many of
-the wxWindows C++ classes, and is quickly gaining popularity amongst Python
-developers. You can get wxWidgets as part of the source or CVS distribution of
-wxWindows, or directly from its home page.
+wxWidgets preserves the look and feel of the
+underlying graphics toolkit, and has a large set of widgets and
+collection of GDI classes. See `the wxWidgets page
+<http://www.wxwidgets.org>`_ for more details.
+
+wxWidgets supports Windows and MacOS; on Unix variants,
+it supports both GTk+ and Motif toolkits.
Qt
'''
There are bindings available for the Qt toolkit (`PyQt
-<http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/>`_) and for KDE (PyKDE). If
+<http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/>`_) and for KDE (`PyKDE <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pykde/intro>`__). If
you're writing open source software, you don't need to pay for PyQt, but if you
want to write proprietary applications, you must buy a PyQt license from
`Riverbank Computing <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk>`_ and (up to Qt 4.4;
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ Gtk+
''''
PyGtk bindings for the `Gtk+ toolkit <http://www.gtk.org>`_ have been
-implemented by by James Henstridge; see ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/.
+implemented by James Henstridge; see <http://www.pygtk.org>.
FLTK
''''
@@ -85,14 +84,15 @@ What platform-specific GUI toolkits exist for Python?
`The Mac port <http://python.org/download/mac>`_ by Jack Jansen has a rich and
ever-growing set of modules that support the native Mac toolbox calls. The port
-includes support for MacOS9 and MacOS X's Carbon libraries. By installing the
-`PyObjc Objective-C bridge <http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net>`_, Python programs
-can use MacOS X's Cocoa libraries. See the documentation that comes with the Mac
-port.
+supports MacOS X's Carbon libraries.
+
+By installing the `PyObjc Objective-C bridge
+<http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net>`_, Python programs can use MacOS X's
+Cocoa libraries. See the documentation that comes with the Mac port.
:ref:`Pythonwin <windows-faq>` by Mark Hammond includes an interface to the
-Microsoft Foundation Classes and a Python programming environment using it
-that's written mostly in Python.
+Microsoft Foundation Classes and a Python programming environment
+that's written mostly in Python using the MFC classes.
Tkinter questions
@@ -105,23 +105,26 @@ Freeze is a tool to create stand-alone applications. When freezing Tkinter
applications, the applications will not be truly stand-alone, as the application
will still need the Tcl and Tk libraries.
-One solution is to ship the application with the tcl and tk libraries, and point
+One solution is to ship the application with the Tcl and Tk libraries, and point
to them at run-time using the :envvar:`TCL_LIBRARY` and :envvar:`TK_LIBRARY`
environment variables.
To get truly stand-alone applications, the Tcl scripts that form the library
have to be integrated into the application as well. One tool supporting that is
SAM (stand-alone modules), which is part of the Tix distribution
-(http://tix.mne.com). Build Tix with SAM enabled, perform the appropriate call
-to Tclsam_init etc inside Python's Modules/tkappinit.c, and link with libtclsam
-and libtksam (you might include the Tix libraries as well).
+(http://tix.sourceforge.net/).
+
+Build Tix with SAM enabled, perform the appropriate call to
+:cfunc:`Tclsam_init`, etc. inside Python's
+:file:`Modules/tkappinit.c`, and link with libtclsam and libtksam (you
+might include the Tix libraries as well).
Can I have Tk events handled while waiting for I/O?
---------------------------------------------------
Yes, and you don't even need threads! But you'll have to restructure your I/O
-code a bit. Tk has the equivalent of Xt's XtAddInput() call, which allows you
+code a bit. Tk has the equivalent of Xt's :cfunc:`XtAddInput()` call, which allows you
to register a callback function which will be called from the Tk mainloop when
I/O is possible on a file descriptor. Here's what you need::