Re: Why are people not using POE?

For myself, I always gravitate toward using the event-loop framework provided by Tk or Gtk2. I figure if I come up with a good script, I will eventually want a GUI frontend, so why start with a commandline tool? I'm not insinuating that the gui event loops are better than POE.

As far as the Python mailling list goes, I have been seeing Python being recommended often by Computer Science types, who prefer it's style. So I imagine alot of students are being forced to use it.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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Re^2: Why are people not using POE? by spurperl (Priest) on Jun 10, 2005 at 11:14 UTC
Actually, one of POE's published strengths is a very good interoperability with GUI toolkits. I was once making a project that involved threads and Tk, it wasn't easy to combine them... but I was told that POE makes it very easy.	[reply]
Re^3: Why are people not using POE? by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 10, 2005 at 12:48 UTC
And of course, I have a column demonstrating that. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^4: Why are people not using POE? by spurperl (Priest) on Jun 10, 2005 at 13:55 UTC
Nice article, Randal.	[reply]
Re^3: Why are people not using POE? by zentara (Cardinal) on Jun 10, 2005 at 11:20 UTC
That maybe true. For your future reference though, the secret to "easy threads" with Tk or Gtk2 is that you need to create your worker threads (and put them to sleep) BEFORE you start building your GUI. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re^4: Why are people not using POE? by spurperl (Priest) on Jun 10, 2005 at 11:21 UTC
That's what I found out while looking for ways to make them play together :-) POE acts similarly, from what I understood.	[reply]