[Pkg-tcltk-devel] How to use themed widgets and tclreadline in tk8.5

[Sergei Golovan]

On 5/6/08, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I'm the maintainer of Xmaxima. Many Maxima users avoid Xmaxima because
>  they don't like its looks. I'm very glad to see that the fonts look much
>  nicer with tk8.5. I will next like to introduce better-looking widgets
>  such as the ones in the www.tkdocs.com tutorial.
>
>  In order to use themed widgets with tk8.5, I've found that I had to
>  install package tk-tile. But when I use "package require tile", it only
>  works with tk8.4.

Themed widgets are available in Tk 8.5 without tk-tile. They are in
ttk namespace. See man ttk_*. For backward compatibility [package
require tile] works in 8.5 (and does nothing if I remember correctly).

I described Tcl 8.5.2 from current unstable. I don't know which
version is in Ubuntu now.

>
>  The other thing is that tclreadline works in wish8.4 but not in wish8.5.
>  I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 right now, but I also have several machines
>  running Debian which I could use.

I cannot reproduce this. tclreadline works for me with all three Tcl
versions (8.3, 8.4 and 8.5). Though I never used Ubuntu and cannot say
what's wrong with it (except that Tcl/Tk packages aren't payed any
significant attention).

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Sergei Golovan