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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