[Tutor] interface

[Alex Kleider]

On 2015-12-18 17:22, Alan Gauld wrote:

> FWIW My recent book Python Projects includes coverage of
> both ttk and Tix as well as core tkinter. But it's only
> designed to be a taster, it's not a complete reference.
> It's more about the general approach to putting a UI on
> an app than about any specific toolkit.

I have it (the book by Laura Cassell and you!)
The first chapter still has me stumbling! (Super, slots and property() 
were new to me.)
Hadn't yet noticed the Tkinter section- thanks for pointing it out to 
me.


> 
>>      import tkinter as tk
>>      from tkinter import ttk
> 
> For production code this is better.
> And you can swap out Tkinter for Tix by just changing
> one line:
> 
> import tkinter.tixix as tk   # v3
> 
> or
> 
> import Tix as tk    # v2
> 
> So all  the existing tk code carries on working but
> you now have access to the extra widgets in Tix too.

First I've heard of Tix!
Much to learn.

Thanks, Alex