From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T10:10:19+09:00
Subject: Re: RAD ( Rapid Application Development)

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MonkeeSage wrote:
> OT: I heard that Tk was supposed to be using native widgets like
> WxWidgets since like version 8 or something. Well, % info patchlevel
> shows I'm using Tcl/Tk 8.4.13; but the widgets still look like regular
> old Tk widgets. What am I doing wrong here?
> 
> Regards,
> Jordan
> 
> 

http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/248

> TIP #248: Integrate Tile into Tk as Ttk
>
> <snip formal spam>
>
> This TIP proposes that the tile themed widget set be integrated into
> Tk from 8.5 onwards as the static package Ttk.

Not even from 8.5 will Tk default to the Tile theme. Reading into
related documents deeper, Tile doesn't support / use Gtk or Qt native
rendering under *nix. Which makes Tk slower and less complete at
achieving native fidelity than Swing. I almost wouldn't have believed
that possible.

[insert recurrent argument about synthethic GUI toolkits being pure
filth here]

David Vallner
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