Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter to Qt-whatever

2019-11-13 Thread Mark Roseman
Hi Bob, You really should look at the ttk stuff, it’s the easiest migration path to quite decent looking GUI’s. As you note, the “classic” widgets haven’t changed at all in decades. So without the (minimal) API changes to use the ttk widgets, you’re stuck in the deep past. (Also, please ignore

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter to Qt-whatever

2019-11-13 Thread Robert Greschke
> On 2019-11-13, at 10:16, Mike Barnett wrote: > > O….. on a Mac… yea, not a good combination with tkinter from my > experience. It works great if you compile your own Python and link to an included standard Tcl/Tk. We've been doing that since we started using Macs. 12, 15 years? It loo

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter to Qt-whatever

2019-11-13 Thread Robert Greschke
Hi! I saw that, but didn't take a look at it. Did I even get a choice? Hmm. I'll look and see if it can handle me. The trigger for all of this was the way things Tkinter look/feel in macOS. I guess I should give tix/ttk stuff a look, again, too. Our stuff doesn't need to look native, but consis

[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter to Qt-whatever

2019-11-13 Thread Robert Greschke
So pigs have started sprouting wings and I guess "we" (work) are going to start shifting to Qt/PySide2/whatever. I've been playing around for a few weeks and what a mess compared to Tkinter. Does anyone know/think something like Qt-based classes could be written that are called just like and act