[Tutor] interface

Alex Kleider akleider at sonic.net
Sun Dec 20 15:00:33 EST 2015


On 2015-12-20 06:11, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 20/12/15 02:21, Alex Kleider wrote:
> 
>> First I've heard of Tix!
> 
> A potentially useful set of extra widgets on top of Tkinter.
> Unfortunately the Tkinter port of the original Tcl/Tk TIX
> package is incomplete and only reliable for about half the
> extended widgets (thankfully the most common ones such
> as scrolledList and a tabbed Notebook etc).
> 
> The biggest disappointment is the Grid widget which
> theoretically should work but despite many attempts I've
> failed to get anything useful. It's on my todo list to spend
> some time either fixing it, or documenting how it works,
> or both...
> 
> But because Tix is a superset of Tkinter I rarely use
> raw Tkinter nowadays I usually just start with Tix.

Thanks for the background insight.
How does Ttk (T for 'themed' I assume) fit in? is it used in addition to 
Tix
(as it would be used in addition to tkinter)
or is it an either/or situation?

Alex


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