Tkinter updates - Easiest way to install/use Tile?

[Guilherme Polo]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Mudcat <mnations at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I haven't programmed much in Python the past couple of years and
> have been catching up the last few days by reading the boards. I'll be
> making commercial Python applications again and wanted to see what's
> new in the Gui department.
>
> I started using Tkinter several years ago and have a lot of stuff
> written in it. As a result, it's hard to switch to another interface
> (wxPython, PyQt, etc) with all the hours it would take to reproduce
> code I will re-use. (I mention this to avoid the inevitable post
> asking why I'm still using it). While I was able to produce some nice
> applications in the past and am comfortable with the functionality I
> was able to achieve I still wanted to find a way to improve the look
> since the old look is even more dated now.
>
> I was reading about Tile, and it sounds like I should be able to wrap
> a style around my current code to give it a different look. However it
> doesn't sound like it's quite ready for prime time yet. I downloaded
> the latest stable version of Python 2.5 which apparently still uses
> Tcl 8.4. So my options at this point appear to be:
>
> 1) Download beta version of Python 2.6 which has Tcl 8.5.
> Tile is supposed to be included with Tcl 8.5, but there's not much
> information on how to use it with older code. Do I still need wrapper
> code, or if I install 2.6 will it be available already.
>
> 2) Install Tcl 8.5 to use with Python 2.5.
> How do you do this? In other posts it mentions recompiling source tcl
> code with Python. If that's the case it doesn't sound like something I
> want to mess with. If I stray too far from default configurations I
> start to have problems with py2exe.
>
> 3) Install Tile with Python 2.5 and Tcl 8.4 and use wrapper code to
> make it work.
> However all the posts concerning this approach assume that Tile is
> already installed. I downloaded the code for the latest version of
> Tile which was a .kit extension. This also may need to be compiled,
> and if that's the case I again start to have problems with freezing my
> application.

The other points were answered already, so let me give some more
insight on this last one.

For Windows there is a .zip you can download (following the links at
http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/) which requires no installation,
just unpacking. For Linux there is a package named tk-tile in Ubuntu.

In case you are using Windows, just unpacking the .zip doesn't
guarantee that Tk will find the tile package (unless you unpack at
whatever places Tk looks by default). If Tk doesn't find it, you need
to set the TILE_LIBRARY environment variable to whatever place tile
was unzipped to.  I'm assuming you will be using the previously
mentioned ttk wrapper, which will look at TILE_LIBRARY, if necessary,
to load tile.

>
> What's the easiest way to do this? I really couldn't find a place that
> gave instructions for any of the current release configurations. It
> sounds if it's available already in Python 2.6 that it would be the
> easiest way, but I couldn't find any threads talking about the
> availability of it for that release yet.
>
> Thanks
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-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves