There are threading issues between Tkinter and Csound that do not appear in, 
at least, wxPython. I recommend wxPython for this reason. As far as I know 
it has the richest set of widgets and the Boa Constructor IDE can be used to 
interactively design GUIs. Highly recommended.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ S" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:33 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: a new crossplatform initiative, was Re: Re: intel 
maccsound


> Perhaps Python's Tkinter, since there is already an existing
> relationship between CSound and Python.
>
> On Jan 6, 2008 7:21 AM, Andres Cabrera  wrote:
>> I wouldn't know where to start either, but I guess it would be hard to
>> get everyone to agree on a particular set of tools. I would propose Qt,
>> which I've used lately, is cross-platform and is quite easy to use.
>
>
> Send bugs reports to this list.
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> csound" 

Yes, I know this is off the topic of a suitable editor, but I wanted  
to add to an implication in Michael's suggestion. GUIs and GUI  
environments have a very steep learning curve (broad more than deep)  
and my experience is that people tend to support what they know, and  
think it's easier/better etc etc all else. Fair enough, I fossicked  
around and came down on the side of wxPython. Important in my decision  
was, given the learning curve,  taking account of what secondary tools  
templates and examples are 'out there' before making these decisions  
re which GUI tools to adopt. From memory, Boa Constructor's wxPython  
stuff is build on wxGlade which, I think, is not exclusively python  
exclusive, though most of the users tend in that direction.

Re a text editor, what's wrong with VIM as a starting place?  I use it  
with python consciousness (coloured keyword metatags) and it seems to  
be easily scriptable. Admittedly, having used ED for many years, I  
thought VI was an amazing advance. With VIM, I'm dazzled - so I might  
be a bit out of date. :-)

The python community is still actively debating editor/IDE issues so  
we probably won't get any joy out of asking them.

-drw

On 07/01/2008, at 4:02 AM, Michael Gogins wrote:

> There are threading issues between Tkinter and Csound that do not  
> appear in, at least, wxPython. I recommend wxPython for this reason.  
> As far as I know it has the richest set of widgets and the Boa  
> Constructor IDE can be used to interactively design GUIs. Highly  
> recommended.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ S" 
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:33 AM
> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: a new crossplatform initiative, was Re: Re:  
> intel maccsound
>
>
>> Perhaps Python's Tkinter, since there is already an existing
>> relationship between CSound and Python.
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2008 7:21 AM, Andres Cabrera  wrote:
>>> I wouldn't know where to start either, but I guess it would be  
>>> hard to
>>> get everyone to agree on a particular set of tools. I would  
>>> propose Qt,
>>> which I've used lately, is cross-platform and is quite easy to use.
>>
>>
>> Send bugs reports to this list.
>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body  
>> "unsubscribe csound"
>
>
>
> Send bugs reports to this list.
> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body  
> "unsubscribe csound"
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