On 6/18/10 6:16 PM, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
Is there a good web-site / tutorial / book / etc that you would
recommend for getting a good handle on Tk 8.5?
Most of the Tk 8.5 references will be Tcl-based, but one that is cross-
language is Mark Roseman's www.tkdocs.com.
For books, there is John Ousterhout's main book, now in the 2nd
edition, updated with Tcl/Tk 8.5 references:
http://www.amazon.com/Tcl-Toolkit-2nd-John-Ousterhout/dp/032133633X
To understand just the changes in Tk 8.5, you can see the wiki page
that lists references for all changes:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/10630
It includes 16 new widgets (many themed versions of classic widgets,
but key new ones like the combobox and notebook), new canvas and text
features, and more. The wiki in general has lots of how-to reference
info (over 20K pages of content).
The key with Tk that I've seen misunderstood in this thread is that it
has lots of extensions. Those in the core community do argue about
whether "important" widgets should be full core or kept as widgets
(where they get their own dev cycle). There are some fantastic Tk
widgets out there, like tktreectrl (http://
tktreectrl.sourceforge.net/), tktable, many in tklib (e.g. tablelist
http://www.nemethi.de/tablelist/tablelist.html), and more. They can
be used with any of the languages that integrate with Tk, but may not
have "built-in" support (IOW, you might need some language-specific
shim). Overcoming these hurdles may help reduce the pain and glum
feelings people have towards Tk bound to non-Tcl languages (and is
indeed one of the points addressed by Tkx). It doesn't help with doc
translation (for use with other languages), so that's yet another
hurdle. :-/
Jeff
To see the new ttk widgets at work in Tkinter, look at the next
generation of the venerable app PySol, PySolFC, at
http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net. Here are screenshots of (I think) the
Windows versions:
http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
And the Mac version:
http://mac.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/PySolFC-Screenshot-24708.html
Here's a screenshot from one of my own Tkinter applications that makes
use of ttk widgets and also such Tk extension packages as BWidgets (the
treeview) and tablelist (the table view):
http://www.codebykevin.com/phynchronicity-running.png
--Kevin
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http://www.codebykevin.com
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