I'm a little confused. I was under the impression (perhaps incorrectly)
that Tkinter will create GUI widgets that are native to your OS, so I
should have an XPish looking application. But when I create buttons (and
even the text fields look a bit different), they are not the 'fancy'
Windows buttons that are rectangular with rounded edges and have a
blueish border around the active button, but instead are just square
buttons. Is this normal behavior? Why don't I get the XP type of
buttons, and is it possible to get them?
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John Salerno wrote: I'm a little confused. I was under the impression (perhaps incorrectly)
that Tkinter will create GUI widgets that are native to your OS
only for some widgets; some native widgets are not flexible enough.
and even native widgets don't always look like XP widgets (windows uses
a rather obscure manifest XML resource file to control the look and feel
for a specific application).
to get better XP styling, you can use the Tile library: http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/UsingTile http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/...windowsxp.html
or an 8.5 development version (which, afaik, includes the Tile library).
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Fredrik Lundh wrote: John Salerno wrote:
I'm a little confused. I was under the impression (perhaps
incorrectly) that Tkinter will create GUI widgets that are native to
your OS
only for some widgets; some native widgets are not flexible enough.
and even native widgets don't always look like XP widgets (windows uses
a rather obscure manifest XML resource file to control the look and feel
for a specific application).
to get better XP styling, you can use the Tile library:
http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/UsingTile
http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/...windowsxp.html
or an 8.5 development version (which, afaik, includes the Tile library).
</F>
Thanks for the suggestions. I definitely miss Visual Studio's drag and
drop GUI developer. But I definitely don't miss trying to figure out how
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