Mac Os X and Python

[Steve Spicklemire]

Well.. if you're willing to shell out a few $$$ for tenon's XTools, then 
Tk works great in a window. Dunno how long it will be before this is 
possible with the free stuff. I think XTools is a pretty good deal!

-steve

On Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 11:05 AM, Steven D. Majewski wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Robert Hicks wrote:
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>> Tk does *not* work in OSX yet. Tcl is installed by default not Tcl/Tk. 
>> That
>> was the last I checked (month ago).
>
> Tk *does* work on OSX if you run it under X11.
> ( and Tkinter did work the last time I tried it under X11 )
>
> But neither Tk nor X11 come installed in OSX, and there's no
> rootless X11 yet, so you can't really do X and Native Mac
> programs at the same time. (Although there is a Cocoa Xserver,
> so you can swap screens back and forth, rather than having to
> log out and in again as ">console" , which is what you had to
> do earlier. )
>
> And there's no carbonized Tk to run in native mode either.
>
> The earlier non-carbon MacPython did run Tkinter in "classic"
> mode, and I assume that if you check the "run in classic" box
> in the finder info, you can get the carbonized 2.1 MacPython
> to run in classic and use tkinter.
>
>
> -- Steve Majewski
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