[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset ebb08beb08461eb5f147aaca6f86cafa4ea15bff by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-23156: Remove obsolete tix install directions (GH-11595) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ebb08beb08461eb5f147aaca6f86cafa4ea15bff -- nosy: +

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: New changeset cf27c06229eb4b8280bb5f2b93a57e33163411f4 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'master': bpo-23156: Remove obsolete tix install directions (GH-11595) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cf27c06229eb4b8280bb5f2b93a57e33163411f4 --

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: /go/so -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.pyt

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: If the obsolete text is not to revised, it should be removed, as Ned suggested. I don't now think a replacement list is needed. Serhiy, if you have any opinion either way, please say go. -- stage: patch review -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.8 -P

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- keywords: +patch, patch, patch pull_requests: +11298, 11299, 11300 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- keywords: +patch, patch pull_requests: +11298, 11299 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +11298 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ P

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: Since tix has been deprecated since 3.6 (according to the docs with commit bd63353b7433ea8aa831ffb158ac29fb646a6fc9), should this ticket be closed as out of date? -- nosy: +cheryl.sabella ___ Python tracker

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Mike Basca added the comment: Hi, I'm the original poster in the stack-exchange link. Based on your responses, It seems Ttk is the way to go if you're on Mac OSX 64-bit. Thanks for your time and input. Really appreciate it! -- nosy: +abaskm __

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I found tix8.4.3.dll and pkgIndex.tcl inside tcl/tix8.4.3, which is not where the doc currently says to look. Christian Gollwitzer posted a response on the python-list thread "Python Tk Tix GUI documentation & builder overview and tips" (which helped inspire t

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Ned Deily added the comment: I'm no expert on Tk but, as best I can tell, Tix is a very old third-party set of Tk extension widgets that has been made obsolete by the Ttk widget set integrated into standard Tk 8.5. See, for example, Kevin Walzer's comments here: http://www.thecodingforums.com

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Added Zach for Window build info, Ned for OSX info. -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker ___ ___ P

[issue23156] Update tix install information in tkinter tix chapter of doc

New submission from Terry J. Reedy: Update tix install info in doc. "Using tix" starts with 3 lines for testing one's tix install and continues '''If this fails, you have a Tk installation problem which must be resolved before proceeding. Use the environment variable TIX_LIBRARY to point to