Nicholas Cole wrote: > I've just seen that a new version of Tk has been released, and the > screenshots suggest that it will blend in much better on the mac platoform. > What is going to be the best way of installing the new Tk and a version of > python that can use it, without upsetting apple's python install (which I'm > using with Xcode...) >
Here's what I did: 1. Remove my installations of Tcl/Tk 8.4.x from /Library/Frameworks. 2. Build Tcl/Tk 8.5 from source and install in /Library/Frameworks. 3. Download the source code for Python 2.5.1. In "setup.py," comment out /System/Library as a place to search for Tcl/Tk--this will force Python to link to the installation of Tcl/Tk 8.5 in /Library/Frameworks. 4. Build and install. Python should work with Tk 8.5. I should point out that the nicer screenshots for Tk are a new widget set, Tile/Themed Tk, which are part of the Tk core. However, they have to be explicitly called, and there is currenly no official support for them in Python's Tkinter module. I maintain a wrapper at http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/TileWrapper that lets you load the themed widgets, but I am not the original author and as I cannot reach the original author, it's unlikely this module will be included in Tkinter. Other have also pointed out that Python with TK 8.5 generates a lot of fork/exec error messages in Console, and I can confirm this. (Bugs filed at python.org.) I'm not sure if this is a problem or not--I haven't observed any performance problems with Python/Tkinter 8.5. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
