[Tutor] Multiple tabs using tkinter

[Alan Gauld]

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 is that it is a full superset of Tkinter
so you can just put this at the top and it converts your
code to use Tix:

replace

import Tkinter

with

import Tix as Tkinter

But Tix has over 40 extra widgets including a tabbed notepad,
balloon, meter, shell and and a very powerful (but undocumented!)
grid control.

The most important and commonly used seem to have been
incorporated into the latest ttk, but not all of them.

> "Less available" rather than "unavailable" :).  Tix ships with Tcl/Tk
> with CPython on Windows; on Linux, you'd need to install it separately
> from Tcl/Tk and python/tkinter.  I honestly don't have a clue how
> you'd get it on macOS or any other platform that doesn't provide it in
> a system repository.

It should be easy since its just native Tcl code, there's no C
involved so far as I know (I haven't checked!). So anywhere Tcl
runs Tix should work.

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