Python Tk Tix GUI documentation & builder overview and tips

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/4/2015 3:23 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:

> Am 03.01.15 um 22:57 schrieb Terry Reedy:
>> The current doc is wrong in any case.  I opened
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue23156

> Tix is a compiled extension, so this tix8.4.3.dll is needed as well as a
> couple of .tcl file including pkgIndex.tcl, which makes the package
> available to the Tcl interpreter. tix*.dll was never part of tk*.dll.
>
> Note that Tix is LEGACY. There are much better options for its widgets
> available that are based on ttk. Just to try, I compiled Tix under OSX
> for my Tk8.6.3 and ran the widget demos.
>
> Instead of
>
> * Hierarchical Listbox use ttk::treeview, tablelist_tile or tkTreeCtrl,
> with increasing order of capabilities and install complexity
>
> * TList: I think tkTreeCtrl can do it, never have used this layout
>
> * CheckList: tablelist can be used with an editable field
>
> * Grid widget: use tkTable
>
> * NoteBook, PanedWindow, ComboBox, LabelFrame -> ttk::notebook,
> ttk::panedwindow, ttk::combobox, ttk::labelframe
>
> * Balloon: tcllib::tooltip
>
> Not to mention that the Tix widgets are extremely ugly, while the
> widgets from ttk have a near-native look and feel.
>
> Caveat emptor: I've never used Tix, so this is just my impression as an
> experienced Tk programmer from running the widget demo

I copied parts of this response with additional comments in a new 
tracker post.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy