[Tkinter-discuss] Problem running Tix from Python 2.4

[Michael Lange]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:56:52 -0000
"Mark English" <Mark.English at liffe.com> wrote:

Hi Mark,

you forgot to initialize tix by calling Tix.Tk() instead of Tkinter.Tk().

> 
> C:\temp> python
> Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> import Tix
> >>> root = Tkinter.Tk()
             ^^^^^^^

> >>> feb = Tix.FileSelectBox(root)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\lib-tk\Tix.py", line 791, in __init__
>     TixWidget.__init__(self, master, 'tixFileSelectBox', ['options'],
> cnf, kw)
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\lib-tk\Tix.py", line 307, in __init__
>     self.tk.call(widgetName, self._w, *extra)
> _tkinter.TclError: invalid command name "tixFileSelectBox"
> 

In fact you don't need to import Tkinter separately, you can simply
do an "import Tix" and prefix all standard Tkinter widgets with Tix
(Tix.Button etc.) or do "from Tix import *" and use the standard widgets
as usual (Tix.py itself does a "from Tkinter import *").

I hope this helps

Michael