2013/5/18 Beinan Li <li.bei...@gmail.com>: > Hi Tkinter, > > I'm new to the list and have to confess that I'm a newbie > that needs recommendations on high-level (compound) widgets based on > tkinter. > As far as I understand, I assume ttk has quite a number of high-level > widgets such as notebook, > but the inventory is still not as big as one may find in other toolkits like > wx or qt. > > From tkinter website (http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter), I saw a list of > extensions: > > Pmw (http://pmw.sourceforge.net) > > Tix (http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-Tix.html) > > TkZinc (http://www.tkzinc.org) > > Tkinter3000 (http://tkinter.effbot.org) > > How Tkinter can exploit Tcl/Tk extensions > > But not sure if that list still up to date. > > Correct me if I'm wrong please. > I followed the links and found that at least Pmw, TkZink (last update 2007, > http://www.tkzinc.org/news/) > and Tkinter3000 (last update in 2006: http://effbot.org/zone/wck.htm) are > not under active dev. > > Tix looks like already part of the stdlib, but this page > (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12499465/tix-tutorials-in-python) > suggests that ttk can largely replace it. Personally I doubt it because if > that were the case, Tix (py2) or tkinter.tix (py3) wouldn't > coexist with ttk for this long. But I don't see a lot of tutorials about how > to use Tix with tkinter. That stackoverflow post is probably > the closest clue I can find. So I wonder if Tix has been widely adopted. > > Then about using Tcl/Tk extensions directly > (http://wiki.python.org/moin/How%20Tkinter%20can%20exploit%20Tcl/Tk%20extensions) > that seems to be the technique used by tkinter.tix under the hood (?). I > wonder, from your experience, if this approach can provide > acceptable stability and performance. > > Please feel free to give other recommendations about compound widgets if > any. If you'd say that Tix is my best bet then any docs or > resources about it would be welcomed. > > Thanks, > Beinan >
Hello Beinan, Maybe you can use Pygubu [1], a GUI builder that I'm working on, to build more complex widgets in a "easy" way. Includes the basic ttk widgets and some helpers and is inspired in Glade. Regards. [1] https://github.com/alejandroautalan/pygubu [2] http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/ _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
