Ronald Oussoren wrote:
And to be honest, I even have doubts about a toolkit such as Tk which
uses native widgets but has a rather un-mac feeling unless the developer
really knows what he's doing. That explains why IDLE looks ugly on OSX,
I don't know what I'm doing w.r.t. Tk on OSX, and AFAIK Python's stdlib
doesn't even ship with all components that are needed to get a proper
native L&F with Tkinter.
Ronald,
You've done terrific work getting IDLE to work with OS X. A lot of the
work that needs to be done with IDLE modernizing its interface simply
can't be done at a platform-specific level.
There are two interesting developments that will affect Tkinter in the
near future:
1. The ttk themed widgets will now be part of the Python standard
library starting with 2.7 and 3.1
(http://gpolo.ath.cx:81/projects/pyttk/). Guilherme Polo did this as a
GSoC project. I believe IDLE will be using the new widgets as well. That
will help a great deal.
2. A port of Tk to run on top of Cocoa instead of Carbon by Tk-Aqua's
maintainer, Daniel Steffen (with support from Apple), is now
substantially complete: see
http://github.com/das/tcltk/tree/de-carbon-8-5. It's still currently a
fork/branch of the main Tk development, and probably won't be committed
to the main line until later (perhaps Tk 8.6, which may not be out for
another year), but it works beautifully. I'm currently testing a
four-way universal build of Python and Tk-Cocoa. IDLE looks a bit weird
because of some menu layout issues (there are a few differences between
Tk-Carbon and Tk-Cocoa), but those can be adjusted with some patches--I
may work some up at the appropriate time.
Thanks,
Kevin
--
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com
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