tkinter: native look to windows?
John Salerno
johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Wed Jun 7 15:14:05 EDT 2006
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>
>> I'm a little confused. I was under the impression (perhaps
>> incorrectly) that Tkinter will create GUI widgets that are native to
>> your OS
>
> only for some widgets; some native widgets are not flexible enough.
>
> and even native widgets don't always look like XP widgets (windows uses
> a rather obscure manifest XML resource file to control the look and feel
> for a specific application).
>
> to get better XP styling, you can use the Tile library:
>
> http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/UsingTile
>
> http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/windowsxp.html
>
> or an 8.5 development version (which, afaik, includes the Tile library).
>
> </F>
>
Thanks for the suggestions. I definitely miss Visual Studio's drag and
drop GUI developer. But I definitely don't miss trying to figure out how
to write something in C#! :)
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