Is it possible to use tkinter?
Hi! Welcome!
Sadly, tkinter dead-locks when you try to use it, see: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/issues/6967.
Somewhere between Python → tkinter → tk / tcl → SDL (our libtk port relies on SDL, see https://www.androwish.org) things go wrong, and no one has figured it out just yet.
1 Like
Unfortunately no. Tcl/Tk on Haiku is based on UndroidWish, which doesn’t get along with whatever wizardry Tkinter does in the background and… yeah, see above. But Tcl/Tk itself works fine, if that helps. It’s just ugly. Edit: also, nowadays there are other bindings available such as PyQT5.
1 Like
An interesting alternatives:
2 Likes
interesting, I’ll take a look
On that vein, there’s also Remi, and PySimpleGUI. Albeit I haven’t tried them yet on Haiku.
2 Likes
It would be possible if Xlibe supported Tk, which unfortunately it doesn’t. I was just looking into this again yesterday, and it seems the problem might be a missing API in Haiku itself. There might be a way to work around this inside Tk, but I didn’t dig into that just yet.
2 Likes
So, what is the best way now learn programming “python with Haiku”?
Try all this GUIs? To find out it does not work out?
Would be nice a professional python-programmer would look into this and recommend a successful way to use learn python with Haiku.
Self-promotion here, but why not try Haiku-PyAPI?
If there are widgets you need bound, you can always ask me.
2 Likes