[Tkinter-discuss] Anyone building MS Office-like ribbonbar interfaces using Tkinter?

[Kevin Walzer]

On 12/1/10 12:15 PM, python at bdurham.com wrote:
> Curious if any of you are building MS Office-like ribbonbar user
> interfaces using Tkinter? If so, I would love to see a screenshot to see
> what is possible.
>
> We're starting to get more requests for this type of modern user
> interface. Personally, I hate the new MS Office ribbonbars (after more
> than 2 years of trying to like this interface), but I have to admit they
> do look visually more appealing (or at least more modern) than
> traditional menu/toolbars interfaces.
>
> What are your thoughts regarding the ribbonbar widget - useful,
> annoying, important, impossible to implement in Tkinter, etc?
> Malcolm

Tkribbon might be of interest:

http://bit.ly/hLrwIO

That link includes the announcement and a download link.

And a few  screenshots:

http://www.ellogon.org/~petasis/tcl/TkRibbon/images/TkRibbon-Default.png

http://www.ellogon.org/~petasis/tcl/TkRibbon/images/TkRibbon-Minimised.png

http://www.ellogon.org/~petasis/tcl/TkRibbon/images/TkRibbon-Floating.png

This is a Tcl/Tk package, so you'll have to write some wrapper code to 
access it from Tkinter.

The library is listed as alpha-level code, but its author, Georgios 
Petasis, is one of the foremost Tcl/Tk deveopers out there--he's also 
written the TDND library (supports native drag-and-drop) and TkGecko, 
which wraps a Firefox window inside Tk--so it's safe to say the library 
is of high quality.

--Kevin

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Kevin Walzer
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