On Feb 4, 2008 9:57 AM, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Mellon wrote: > > > Nitpick, but an important one. It emulates *look*. Not feel. Native > > look is easy and totally insufficient for a "native" app - it's the > > feel that's important. > > Is this opinion based on firsthand experience with use of the Tile/ttk > widgets on any of the relevant platforms? > > I'm not a Windows user, so I can't speak about that platform, but I have > worked very hard to make my Python-Tile-Tk app consistent with both the > look and feel of OS X: keyboard shortcuts, menu behavior, and so on. > It's mainly a matter of attention to detail, and listening to user > feedback. I've gotten good feedback on my applications in recent months > as I've implemented more and more platform native behavior, and sales of > these applications (I'm a shareware developer) reflect that. > > I'd be interested to hear how, in your experience, Tk/Tile is inherently > unable to deliver native platform "feel," in a way that reflects on the > toolkit rather than the developer. It's fine to focus on Windows if > that's your area of expertise.
I didn't say inherently unable, I said the toolkit doesn't provide it. Note that you said that you did a lot of work to follow OS X conventions and implement behavior. The toolkit doesn't help you with any of this. A mac-native toolkit (or one that strives for native behavior, like wxPython) eliminates a lot of this work (although, of course, not all). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
