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Komodo 4 will not include gui builder out-of-the-box

As of Komodo 4.0 beta 2, Komodo no longer includes ActiveState's Tk-based GUI builder (with support for non-tcl Tk bindings like Python's Tkinter). They've released it as open source to the SpecTcl project, from which it was apparently forked long ago. Re-integration with Komodo 4 as a plugin is planned eventually, but it doesn't look likely before the 4.0 release.

I wonder how much of the impetus behind this is the increased amount of web-based development done today, and how much is due to Tk's increasingly dated look and the increased popularity of more modern toolkits such wxwidgets.

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Anonymous said…
Oddly, the GUI builder was one of the more attractive features in Komodo Pro for me. Tk GUIs may look dated, but for simple tasks, I prefer to use Python built-ins whenever possible - the fewer external libraries I need to use, the simpler my projects are.
9:35 AM
Levitra said…
It is disappointing for me that this new version of Komodo doesn't include this feature. It was my favorite characteristic of this tool.
8:30 AM
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