On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor@python.org> wrote: > On 07/02/17 16:41, Zachary Ware wrote: > >> Full disclosure, I've never actually used Tix beyond making it build >> with the rest of CPython on Windows and making sure it actually worked >> on one of my Linux buildbot workers. I have only ever seen it as a >> maintenance headache :) > > The beauty of Tix is that it is a full superset of Tkinter > so you can just put this at the top and it converts your > code to use Tix: > > replace > > import Tkinter > > with > > import Tix as Tkinter
That's just because tix.py does "from tkinter import *". You can achieve the same by doing 'from tkinter import *;from tkinter.ttk import *' (in a separate 'tk.py' if you want everything namespaced in your code). > But Tix has over 40 extra widgets including a tabbed notepad, > balloon, meter, shell and and a very powerful (but undocumented!) > grid control. Very little of tkinter is actually documented outside of the official Tcl/Tk docs, unfortunately. How does tix.Grid differ from the standard grid geometry manager (.grid() method on widgets)? > The most important and commonly used seem to have been > incorporated into the latest ttk, but not all of them. Which ones are missing? I'd recommend raising issues against Tk for having them added. >> "Less available" rather than "unavailable" :). Tix ships with Tcl/Tk >> with CPython on Windows; on Linux, you'd need to install it separately >> from Tcl/Tk and python/tkinter. I honestly don't have a clue how >> you'd get it on macOS or any other platform that doesn't provide it in >> a system repository. > > It should be easy since its just native Tcl code, there's no C > involved so far as I know (I haven't checked!). So anywhere Tcl > runs Tix should work. There's some Tcl, but mostly C; see http://svn.python.org/view/external/tix-8.4.3.x/ (particularly the 'generic', 'unix', and 'win' directories). -- Zach _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor