Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
Minor correction: Tk does not generate names as digit sequences. Its syntax
requires a name to be always specified. Past versions of Tkinter generated
names as digit sequences, now it generates more readable and informative names.
If we ever add
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
As an IDLE maintainer, I am a tkinter user also and that is my involvement in
tkinter changes. One of my projects for IDLE has been to switch to ttk
widgets, including ttk.Frame, wherever possible, for the reasons you gave.
It is known the tkinter docs we
Martin Cooper added the comment:
I think you are confusing the perspective of the implementor with that of the
typical developer _using_ the toolkit without reading through its source code.
In my tkinter applications, I pretty much always use ttk widgets where they are
available. This is
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
You are confusing the widget path component, an arbitrary string of chars other
than the separator '.', with the English word 'frame', which is also a tk
command. In tk docs, 'a *frame*' is a widget (tk window) created with the
'frame' command.
By
New submission from Martin Cooper :
Attempting to use a ttk.Frame with wm_manage() causes a TclError:
_tkinter.TclError: window ".!frame" is not manageable: must be a frame,
labelframe or toplevel
The (Tcl) documentation for wm manage states "Only frame, labelframe and
toplevel widgets can
