Intriguing Tk appearance under MacOS X
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From: Thomas MENEZ on 15 Feb 2010 16:31 Hi all, I have had some friends run a Tcl/Tk app for me on their MacOS. Results have been quite different, although their OS were the same. Sometimes the Tk widgets look very well integrated with MacOS (e.g. the notebook tabs are highlited in blue according to Mac visual style), sometimes they're quite simple, such as those on Windows 2000. What makes the difference ? The pre-installed Tcl/Tk distriubution ? A friend of mine tried to install an ActiveState Tcl/Tk distribution onto his snow leopard MacOS, which broke everything (I mean Tcl/Tk), thus requiring a painful manual uninstallation sequence. Can anyone explain those behaviours ? Thanks ! Thomas.
From: Kevin Walzer on 15 Feb 2010 19:43 On 2/15/10 4:31 PM, Thomas MENEZ wrote: > Hi all, > > I have had some friends run a Tcl/Tk app for me on their MacOS. > Results have been quite different, although their OS were the same. > Sometimes the Tk widgets look very well integrated with MacOS (e.g. > the notebook tabs are highlited in blue according to Mac visual > style), sometimes they're quite simple, such as those on Windows 2000. > What makes the difference ? The pre-installed Tcl/Tk distriubution ? > A friend of mine tried to install an ActiveState Tcl/Tk distribution > onto his snow leopard MacOS, which broke everything (I mean Tcl/Tk), > thus requiring a painful manual uninstallation sequence. > > Can anyone explain those behaviours ? > > Thanks ! > > Thomas. It could depend on which ttk theme was set...'aqua,' the native theme, looks native because it uses native widgets. If the theme was set to something else it would not look native.... -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com
From: Thomas MENEZ on 16 Feb 2010 16:28 On Feb 16, 1:43 am, Kevin Walzer <k...(a)codebykevin.com> wrote: > On 2/15/10 4:31 PM, Thomas MENEZ wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I have had some friends run a Tcl/Tk app for me on their MacOS. > > Results have been quite different, although their OS were the same. > > Sometimes the Tk widgets look very well integrated with MacOS (e.g. > > the notebook tabs are highlited in blue according to Mac visual > > style), sometimes they're quite simple, such as those on Windows 2000. > > What makes the difference ? The pre-installed Tcl/Tk distriubution ? > > A friend of mine tried to install an ActiveState Tcl/Tk distribution > > onto his snow leopard MacOS, which broke everything (I mean Tcl/Tk), > > thus requiring a painful manual uninstallation sequence. > > > Can anyone explain those behaviours ? > > > Thanks ! > > > Thomas. > > It could depend on which ttk theme was set...'aqua,' the native theme, > looks native because it uses native widgets. If the theme was set to > something else it would not look native.... > > -- > Kevin Walzer > Code by Kevinhttp://www.codebykevin.com I guess that the theme set by default on MacOSX is the 'aqua' theme, right ? Thanks.
From: Kevin Walzer on 16 Feb 2010 17:23 On 2/16/10 4:28 PM, Thomas MENEZ wrote: >> It could depend on which ttk theme was set...'aqua,' the native theme, >> looks native because it uses native widgets. If the theme was set to >> something else it would not look native.... >> >> -- >> Kevin Walzer >> Code by Kevinhttp://www.codebykevin.com > > I guess that the theme set by default on MacOSX is the 'aqua' theme, > right ? > > Thanks. That's right. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com
From: Gerald W. Lester on 17 Feb 2010 09:14
Thomas MENEZ wrote: > Hi all, > > I have had some friends run a Tcl/Tk app for me on their MacOS. > Results have been quite different, although their OS were the same. > Sometimes the Tk widgets look very well integrated with MacOS (e.g. > the notebook tabs are highlited in blue according to Mac visual > style), sometimes they're quite simple, such as those on Windows 2000. > What makes the difference ? The pre-installed Tcl/Tk distriubution ? > A friend of mine tried to install an ActiveState Tcl/Tk distribution > onto his snow leopard MacOS, which broke everything (I mean Tcl/Tk), > thus requiring a painful manual uninstallation sequence. > > Can anyone explain those behaviours ? > > Thanks ! > > Thomas. My guess is they are running different version of OS/X -- looks best with Snow Leopard. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Gerald W. Lester | |"The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive." - Cervantes| +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |