[Tutor] Tkinter on OS X

[Steve Willoughby]

Shrutarshi Basu wrote:
> I've been writing a simple Tkinter interface to one of my programs.
> But it looks rather bad on OS X leopard. I was wondering why that was
> the case, since it seemed to take up at least some GUI elements (like
> button styles). I then came upon the following page:
> http://developer.apple.com/unix/toolkits.html
> that says that the Aqua version of Tk hasn't been integrated with
> Tkinter. Is this correct? Is there another way to write a front-end
> that looks more like a native app. I put a screenshot of my current UI
> up on my blog.
> http://bytebaker.com/2008/06/21/cocoa-python-and-the-quest-for-platform-independence/
> 

Have you considered something like wx?  That's a bit more heavyweight to
develop to (but not a great deal), but it gives complete native
look and feel on Unix, Windows and OSX.