Hi, I have had issues running Tix on python 2.7.6 and 3.4.2:
More details on the issue here. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27751923/tix-widgets-installation-issue Has anyone had similar issues with Tix? Thanks and Happy New Year. On Friday, March 27, 2009 5:19:42 PM UTC-4, bal...@googlemail.com wrote: > I have recently started development for a small video conversion > project using a GUI. After some research I decided to use Tkinter/Tix > (Tk/Tix). The reasons are mainly: > > 1. the GUI is rather simple, and > > 2. the end-user is not necessarily technically inclined so I want to > keep > a) required libraries as few as possible, and > b) installation as painless as possible. > > 3. Tk/Tix is included with Python. Thus only a Python installation is > needed. Nothing else. > > 4. Tk itsself misses some rudimentary widgets like meters, multi/colum > lists, grid and scrolled widgets. Tix provides those. Good enough for > my little application (more advanced and more modern widgets are > available in frameworks like Qt, Gtk, or wxWindows). > > > Before starting I spent some effort to find > a) relevant documentation, > b) GUI Builders which might help me, > c) answers to non-obvious questions. > > The process took some time and effort so I want to share my findings: > > a) Documentation resources > > Python Docs > http://docs.python.org/library/tkinter.html > Tk Commands > http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/contents.htm > Tix Reference > http://tix.sourceforge.net/man/html/contents.htm > Tix demo application > You want to extract the Tix demo application coming with the Tix > 8.4.3 source distribution. It contains examples for many widgets - > unfortunately none for multi-column HList or the Grid (see below). > > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5649&package_id=5704 > Tix8.4.3-src.tar.gz, then look in /Tix8.4.3/Python/Demo/tix > Thinking in Tkinter > I recommend the "Individual programs online" > http://www.ferg.org/thinking_in_tkinter/index.html > > > b) GUI development tools > > ActiveState GUI Builder (using grid layout) > SpecTcl is the predecessor of GUI Builder (by ActivaState). > http://spectcl.sourceforge.net/ > FAQ (where to get source) > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/komodo-announce/3355346 > > PAGE v3.0 by Stewart Allen (using placer layout) > http://page.sourceforge.net/ > > There are many more for other GUI toolkits mentioned in this post: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-February/250727.html > > Finally I decided to use the packer layout and create the widgets > manually. Just the simplest and quickest way for me. > > > c) How do I ...? > > How do I use all methods available in the Tix Grid? > > Tix Grid with full implementation of all methods > http://klappnase.bubble.org/TixGrid/index.html > > > How do I create a multi-column Tix.HList? > > import Tkinter as Tk > import Tix > > root = Tix.Tk() > # setup HList > hl = Tix.HList(root, columns = 5, header = True) > hl.header_create(0, text = "File") > hl.header_create(1, text = "Date") > hl.header_create(1, text = "Size") > # create a multi-column row > hl.add("row1", text = "filename.txt") > hl.item_create(entry_path, 1, text = "2009-03-26 21:07:03") > hl.item_create(entry_path, 2, text = "200MiB") > > I haven't found out how to right-justify individual columns? Anyone? > > > How to implement Tk GUI with multiple threads? > > Usually there are two options to make threads wait for an event: > > * gui thread polling (lame) > see here how to use Tk.after() (actually a Tcl command) to poll > http://uucode.com/texts/pylongopgui/pyguiapp.html > > see here how to imitate the Tk event loop to poll for non-Tk > events (a socket, for example) > > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5649&package_id=5704 > Tix8.4.3-src.tar.gz, then look in /Tix8.4.3/Python/Demo/tix/ > tixwidgets.py, find loop() > > > * multithreaded with events (the option to choose) > Basically this uses bind and event_generate to send "Notify" > messages to the Tk instance. > I suspect the following example failed due to not synchronising > the event_generate call > > http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Python/comp.lang.python/2006-07/msg01479.html > > For multithreading Python Tk GUI applications the following rules > apply: > 1. same thread calling Tk must do all subsequent GUI calls, > 2. other threads may send events with send_event to the root Tk > instance, > 3. with threading problems you might try to synchonise access to > event_generate(). Using event_generate() with one non-GUI thread seems > to be safe. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
