GUIs - A Modest Proposal
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From: Kevin Walzer on 18 Jun 2010 20:52 On 6/18/10 6:16 PM, Jeff Hobbs wrote: >> >> Is there a good web-site / tutorial / book / etc that you would >> recommend for getting a good handle on Tk 8.5? > > Most of the Tk 8.5 references will be Tcl-based, but one that is cross- > language is Mark Roseman's www.tkdocs.com. > > For books, there is John Ousterhout's main book, now in the 2nd > edition, updated with Tcl/Tk 8.5 references: > http://www.amazon.com/Tcl-Toolkit-2nd-John-Ousterhout/dp/032133633X > > To understand just the changes in Tk 8.5, you can see the wiki page > that lists references for all changes: > http://wiki.tcl.tk/10630 > > It includes 16 new widgets (many themed versions of classic widgets, > but key new ones like the combobox and notebook), new canvas and text > features, and more. The wiki in general has lots of how-to reference > info (over 20K pages of content). > > The key with Tk that I've seen misunderstood in this thread is that it > has lots of extensions. Those in the core community do argue about > whether "important" widgets should be full core or kept as widgets > (where they get their own dev cycle). There are some fantastic Tk > widgets out there, like tktreectrl (http:// > tktreectrl.sourceforge.net/), tktable, many in tklib (e.g. tablelist > http://www.nemethi.de/tablelist/tablelist.html), and more. They can > be used with any of the languages that integrate with Tk, but may not > have "built-in" support (IOW, you might need some language-specific > shim). Overcoming these hurdles may help reduce the pain and glum > feelings people have towards Tk bound to non-Tcl languages (and is > indeed one of the points addressed by Tkx). It doesn't help with doc > translation (for use with other languages), so that's yet another > hurdle. :-/ > > Jeff To see the new ttk widgets at work in Tkinter, look at the next generation of the venerable app PySol, PySolFC, at http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net. Here are screenshots of (I think) the Windows versions: http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html And the Mac version: http://mac.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/PySolFC-Screenshot-24708.html Here's a screenshot from one of my own Tkinter applications that makes use of ttk widgets and also such Tk extension packages as BWidgets (the treeview) and tablelist (the table view): http://www.codebykevin.com/phynchronicity-running.png --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com
From: est on 19 Jun 2010 02:01 > > Having said all that, I would like to eliminate some of the > depedencie. At some point I'll probably re-do the Windows > implementation using ctypes, because pywin32/mfc is hindering > more than helping in some areas. I'm also thinking about ways > to interface directly with Cocoa without going through pyobjc. > But all that is some way off in the future after I get the API > nailed down more. > > -- > Greg that would be awesome!
From: Matt on 19 Jun 2010 02:21
On 06/17/2010 08:50 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-06-16, Matt <matt(a)themattfella.xxxyyz.com> wrote: >> On 06/05/2010 09:22 PM, ant wrote: >> >>> PyQt is tied to one platform. >> >> Several posters have asked for support for or clarification of this >> claim of yours. > > Let me guess... > > The one platform it's tied to is Qt? good answer |