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These are Go bindings for Tk, a cross-platform widget toolkit initially developed as extension for Tcl. Nowadays a lot of languages have bindings for Tcl/Tk. P

by felixr 2y ago

These are Go bindings for Tk, a cross-platform widget toolkit initially developed as extension for Tcl. Nowadays a lot of languages have bindings for Tcl/Tk. Python for example has been including tkinter [0] for a long time. [0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html

Pet_Ant 2y ago
Really? Would love to see a binding for Powershell. Just for cross-platform shell scripts to be able to disable a pop-up for input etc. Just makes them more accessible.
- shakna 2y ago
  That would be WPF. It uses Tk under the covers.
  - Pet_Ant 2y ago
    I believe that has been removed in later versions as the old examples I find online don't work in Powershell > InvalidOperation: Unable to find type System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons].
    - shakna 2y ago
      This still works today for me: Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationFramework [XML]$form = @" <Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" Title="MainWindow" Height="450" Width="800"> <Grid> </Grid> </Window> "@ $NR = (New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $form) $window = [Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($NR) $window.ShowDialog()
  - shakna 2y ago
    Ah, my bad. It is inspired by Tk. Should still be usable across most things today.
fuzztester 2y ago
yes, perl, python and ruby, for example.
fuzztester 2y ago
yes, for python, from 1.5 or early 2.x versions onwards, iirc. I've used py a bit from 1.5 and much more from early 2.x, is how i know this.
zoom6628 2y ago
Seems Tk is now the default cross platform UI for any language. It is doing for local apps what JavaScript has not - a usable toolset for majority of use cases without a ton of overhead and interference. I e only played with tcl/tk over the years - now will put in some hard yards to try in depth. Golang+tk for heavy lifting and server side and tcl/tk for scripts and as hoc things. After 50 years of casual/prof development this might be my personal version of nirvana. YMMV.
- euroderf 2y ago
  > Seems Tk is now the default cross platform UI for any language. So let's hope someone writes a wasm binding.

by felixr 2y ago

Pet_Ant 2y ago

Really? Would love to see a binding for Powershell. Just for cross-platform shell scripts to be able to disable a pop-up for input etc. Just makes them more accessible.

shakna 2y ago
That would be WPF. It uses Tk under the covers.
- Pet_Ant 2y ago
  I believe that has been removed in later versions as the old examples I find online don't work in Powershell > InvalidOperation: Unable to find type System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons].
  - shakna 2y ago
    This still works today for me: Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationFramework [XML]$form = @" <Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" Title="MainWindow" Height="450" Width="800"> <Grid> </Grid> </Window> "@ $NR = (New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $form) $window = [Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($NR) $window.ShowDialog()
- shakna 2y ago
  Ah, my bad. It is inspired by Tk. Should still be usable across most things today.

fuzztester 2y ago

yes, perl, python and ruby, for example.

fuzztester 2y ago

yes, for python, from 1.5 or early 2.x versions onwards, iirc. I've used py a bit from 1.5 and much more from early 2.x, is how i know this.

zoom6628 2y ago

Seems Tk is now the default cross platform UI for any language. It is doing for local apps what JavaScript has not - a usable toolset for majority of use cases without a ton of overhead and interference. I e only played with tcl/tk over the years - now will put in some hard yards to try in depth. Golang+tk for heavy lifting and server side and tcl/tk for scripts and as hoc things. After 50 years of casual/prof development this might be my personal version of nirvana. YMMV.

euroderf 2y ago
> Seems Tk is now the default cross platform UI for any language. So let's hope someone writes a wasm binding.