State of the art: Tkinter, Tk 8.5, Tix?

[r]

On Jan 10, 3:05 pm, excord80 <excor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 10, 11:45 am, r <rt8... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We need TK 8.5's themes. This will bring Tkinter out of the dark ages
> > and into the 21st Century! And improve the shine of the Python base
> > distro. Python could use a good boost right now!
>
> Could someone please explain what Tix provides compared to what the
> new stuff in Tk 8.5 provides? Is there much overlap?

TIX is just a set of compound widgets that were not included in the
base Python Tkinter distro(notebook, label entry, etc... Now, it looks
like they are standard. The new 8.5 TK includes support for OS
specific themes, so as to give a more native feel to TK apps, hence
the 21st century analogy :)