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FFS, I clicked around for a few minutes and not a single screenshot of what the GUI toolkit is capable of. Even the highlights’ “Themed, Truly Native User Interfaces” chapter and the freaking docs that describe the widgets do not show a single screenshot. I’m shaking my head in disbelief.

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Try https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Showcase .

Also https://cgicoffee.com/blog/2026/04/tcl-tk-develop-cross-plat... (takes a little time to load).

I wonder what the author of the second article would have thought of wxWidgets in their “why” section. It wouldn’t have the drawbacks that they attributed to Qt.

Wow, that sounds really traumatic :(

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