http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html#ttk-themed-widgets-for-tk Sorry, I realized just now that ttk is already included in Python 2.7 and 3.2.
2010/7/14 Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rod...@gmail.com>: > 2010/7/14 Guilherme Polo <ggp...@gmail.com>: >> 2010/7/14 Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: >>> On 7/14/2010 2:35 AM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: >>>> >>>> One of the main problems with IDLE is the lack of tabs for editing >>>> multiple files within the same window. >>>> Having that alone would be a great improvement. >>> >>> Yes, the same as tabs for browsing was. >>> >>> This is firstly an unlying gui widget set issue. Tk does not, as far as I >>> know, have a tabbed document widget. Ttk has a new Notebook widget, with >>> tabs. >>> >> >> I have worked on this before, and I can tell you that simply changing >> to ttk widgets is the easiest part. My recommendation, that you are >> free to ignore (especially if you want to skip this previous work), >> is: as a first step change the EditWindow to act more like a EditPage. >> That is, you should be able to instantiate a EditWindow and include >> this new EditPage on it (as a child or something else that you may >> imagine). >> >>> -- >>> Terry Jan Reedy >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/g.rodola%40gmail.com >> > > http://code.google.com/p/python-ttk/wiki/Screenshots > Modified IDLE screenshots look impressive. > Has Ttk (or something similar) ever been considered for inclusion? > I think the problem here is more Tkinter itself rather than IDLE. > Does spending energies on working on something (IDLE) based on such an > old and features-limited module as Tkinter really worth the effort? > > Some major lacks like tabbed browsing can be fixed somehow but there > always will be a big impediment deriving from using such an old > graphic library which can't provide all the facilities offered by wx, > gtk, etc... > > Maybe it would be better to first upgrade/improve Tkinter somehow; > provide a gui toolkit that is *really* competitive, then start to > seriously work on IDLE. > > > My 2 cents > > --- Giampaolo > http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib > http://code.google.com/p/psutil > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
