Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-07 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 07/02/17 19:51, Zachary Ware wrote: >> But Tix has over 40 extra widgets including a tabbed notepad, >> balloon, meter, shell and and a very powerful (but undocumented!) >> grid control. > > Very little of tkinter is actually documented outside of the official > Tcl/Tk docs, unfortunately.

Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-07 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 07/02/17 18:59, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > It should be easy since its just native Tcl code, there's no C Scratch that, I just found a C API for Tix so I guess it has some C after all. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author

Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-07 Thread Zachary Ware
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 07/02/17 16:41, Zachary Ware wrote: > >> Full disclosure, I've never actually used Tix beyond making it build >> with the rest of CPython on Windows and making sure it actually worked >> on one of my Linux buildbot workers. I have

Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-07 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 07/02/17 16:41, Zachary Ware wrote: > Full disclosure, I've never actually used Tix beyond making it build > with the rest of CPython on Windows and making sure it actually worked > on one of my Linux buildbot workers. I have only ever seen it as a > maintenance headache :) The beauty of Tix

Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-07 Thread Zachary Ware
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 07/02/17 03:31, Zachary Ware wrote: > >> ttk rather than Tix; Tix is unmaintained and soft-deprecated in 3.6+. > > Really? Thats a pity. > Tix was supposed to be the module with the extra widgets > and ttk was purely the themed versi

Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-07 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 07/02/17 03:56, Pooja Bhalode wrote: > you mentioned that there are multiple toolkits which can be used instead of > tkinter. I was also looking into wxpython for building a explorer bar. > Mainly, I have to build a software entirely using python and thus, needed > all these things put in place

Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-07 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 07/02/17 03:31, Zachary Ware wrote: > ttk rather than Tix; Tix is unmaintained and soft-deprecated in 3.6+. Really? Thats a pity. Tix was supposed to be the module with the extra widgets and ttk was purely the themed versions of same. Its a shame to confuse their purposes. OTOH it does mean t

Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-07 Thread Pooja Bhalode
Hi Alan and Zackary, Thank you so much for your inputs. I really appreciate any help on these things. Alan, you mentioned that there are multiple toolkits which can be used instead of tkinter. I was also looking into wxpython for building a explorer bar. Mainly, I have to build a software entire

Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-06 Thread Zachary Ware
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 06/02/17 16:40, Pooja Bhalode wrote: > >> I was wondering if someone could help me regarding multiple tabs in >> tkinter. > > Look at the tabbed notebook in the Tix module. > It should do what you want. ttk rather than Tix; Tix is u

Re: [Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

2017-02-06 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 06/02/17 16:40, Pooja Bhalode wrote: > I was wondering if someone could help me regarding multiple tabs in > tkinter. Look at the tabbed notebook in the Tix module. It should do what you want. I give a tutorial on its use in my recent book but you can also find online tutorials, especially in