jhujsak@neotopica.com wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone point me to any good examples of how to get started
> developing new Tkinter widgets in Tcl/Tk?
>
> I have read a number of the popular books on Python and Tkinter:
>
> - Grayson, J.E., Python and Tkinter Programming, Manning Publications,
> 2000
> - Lutz, M., Programming Python, O'Reilly, 1996.
> - etc.
>
> but all seem to sidestep the entire issue of developing new widgets in
> Tk and then wrapping them for Tkinter.
>
> I have a large number of unique widgets to implement and any help here
> would be greatly appreciated. I prefer to work in Tkinter instead of
> alternatives such as WxPython because I have a strong background in
> Tcl/Tk.
>[/color]
You could do worse than look at the Python Megawidgets code from
http://pmw.sourceforge.net/
although there is probably some code in there that's more for framework
reasons that is strictly needed for a single extension widget.
As usual the effbot is ahead of the game with the Widget Construction
Kit, see
http://effbot.org/zone/wck.htm
regards
Steve
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