Looking for examples of developing new Tkinter Widgets in Tcl/Tk

[Steve Holden]

jhujsak at neotopica.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone point me to any good examples of how to get started
> developing new Tkinter widgets in Tcl/Tk?
> 
> I have read a number of the popular books on Python and Tkinter:
> 
> - Grayson, J.E., Python and Tkinter Programming, Manning Publications,
> 2000
> - Lutz, M., Programming Python, O'Reilly, 1996.
> - etc.
> 
> but all seem to sidestep the entire issue of developing new widgets in
> Tk and then wrapping them for Tkinter.
> 
> I have a large number of unique widgets to implement and any help here
> would be greatly appreciated. I prefer to work in Tkinter instead of
> alternatives such as WxPython because I have a strong background in
> Tcl/Tk.
> 
You could do worse than look at the Python Megawidgets code from

   http://pmw.sourceforge.net/

although there is probably some code in there that's more for framework 
reasons that is strictly needed for a single extension widget.

As usual the effbot is ahead of the game with the Widget Construction 
Kit, see

   http://effbot.org/zone/wck.htm

regards
  Steve
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