[Tkinter-discuss] [ANN] Ttk wrapper 0.0.9

[Gerard flanagan]

Guilherme Polo wrote:
> 2008/6/8 Gerard flanagan <grflanagan at gmail.com>:
>> Guilherme Polo wrote:
>>> 2008/6/7 Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
>>>> 2008/6/7 Gerard flanagan <grflanagan at gmail.com>:
>>>>> Guilherme Polo wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Over the last weeks I've been doing a ttk wrapper as part of my GSoC
>>>>>> project and now I feel that I can announce it in hope some people
>>>>>> start using it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is Ttk ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  This wrapper provides classes to allow using the Tk themed widget
>>>>>> set, which has been included in Tk 8.5 but can be used with earlier
>>>>>> versions if you have Tile installed. Ttk is based on a revised and
>>>>>> enhanced version of TIP #48 (http://tip.tcl.tk/48) specified style
>>>>>> engine.
>>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>  Also, there is a site with some info regarding this project at:
>>>>>> http://gpolo.ath.cx:81/projects/ttk_to_tkinter/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> just a suggestion - how about some screenshots?
>>>>>
>>> I just created a new project at code.google.com to host it,
>>> http://code.google.com/p/python-ttk/ or the direct link for some
>>> screenshots: http://code.google.com/p/python-ttk/wiki/Screenshots
>>>
>> Looks good, thanks.
>>
>> But, a problem:
>>
>> The only experience I have with Tkinter is via easygui
>>
>> http://www.ferg.org/easygui
>>
>> (which has its limitations, but i've found it invaluable for creating simple
>> 'wizard' style interfaces for various configuration tasks.)
>>
>> So, (on xubuntu Hardy) I did:
>>
>> apt-get tk-tile
>> svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/ttk-gsoc ttk-trunk
>> updated PYTHONPATH
>> no problem with `import ttk`
>> as per the docs, edited easygui.py to include `from ttk import *`
>> below the line `from Tkinter import *`
>> but app fails immediately with the following traceback
>>
>>  File "lib/_h2hdeploygui.py", line 374, in main
>>    choice = choicebox(MAIN_MSG, MAIN_MSG, MAIN.keys())
>>  File "lib/itsalib/util/easygui.py", line 611, in choicebox
>>    return __choicebox(message, title, choices)
>>  File "lib/itsalib/util/easygui.py", line 745, in __choicebox
>>    okButton = Button(buttonsFrame, takefocus=YES, text="OK", height=1,
>> width=6)
>>  File "/home/gerard/current/ttk-trunk/src/2.x/ttk.py", line 559, in __init__
>>    Widget.__init__(self, master, "ttk::button", kw)
>>  File "/home/gerard/current/ttk-trunk/src/2.x/ttk.py", line 505, in __init__
>>    Tkinter.Widget.__init__(self, master, widgetname, kw=kw)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1933, in __init__
>>    (widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf))
>> TclError: unknown option "-height"
>>
>> I noticed that there was a more recent easygui.py (73), but the same
>> result - app works without the ttk import, doesn't work with.
>>
> 
> Doing "from ttk import *" is not always a drop-in replacement for
> Tkinter, you will usually have to adjust your app.
> 

Ah, I see I should have read more of the docs.

>> Fixable?
> 
> In this case it was an easy fix, just commented out some parts. I'm
> attaching the patch against easygui73, hope it works for you. This
> patch is supposed to be applied at a clean, just unzipped, easygui.py
> (version 73).
> 

yes, that did it.  Thanks for that.

Good luck with the rest of your project.

Regards

Gerard