Tk, Tcl/Tk, Tkx

Sandy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have been using Tk for quite some time now, however when I moved to a MAC recently, I discovered the Tk rendering leaves something to be desired.

Research pointed me to using the 'real' Tk via Tcl/Tk or Tkx.

Does anyone have any preferences between Tcl/Tk or Tkx?

After some rudimentary research last night, I was not able to determine if it is easy to create MegaWidgets in either Tcl/Tk or Tkx. I have created a number of them for myself, and wish to continue using them.

Sadly, I also discovered that Tcl/Tk does not support a Canvas->createGrid. (sad)

Any comments?

Sandy

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Re: Tk, Tcl/Tk, Tkx by jellisii2 (Hermit) on Mar 03, 2016 at 21:06 UTC
I've successfully used Tkx in the past. That said, it was a few years ago, and I was a complete neophyte to Perl on the GUI. TKDocs was the reference I used. Some help from some of the friendly monks around here and I was able to make something that is still being used to this day, which is kinda nice.	[reply]
Re: Tk, Tcl/Tk, Tkx by Anonymous Monk on Mar 03, 2016 at 23:28 UTC
If you just want better looks, try Tcl::pTk, its like using Tk.pm After that the only sane choice is Tcl::Tk Tkx? Never choose it voluntarily, Tkx is the worst possible option, its practically abandonware	[reply]
Re^2: Tk, Tcl/Tk, Tkx by Sandy (Curate) on Mar 04, 2016 at 02:13 UTC
Tcl::pTk fails all the tests It also complains that Tix is not included. Is this true (something I can ignore... ??) Am I missing something? [~/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90] make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h +arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/after.t ..................... 1/8 Tcl::pTk::Error: Undefined subrout +ine &Tcl::_current_refs_widget called at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-p +Tk-0.90/blib/lib/Tcl/pTk/Widget.pm line 1214. while executing "::perl::CODE(0x7ff211520ea8)" ("after" script) Error Started at t/after.t line 36. Stack Trace: at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90/blib/lib/Tcl/pTk.pm line 891. eval {...} called at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90/blib/lib +/Tcl/pTk.pm line 891 Tcl::pTk::DoOneEvent('Tcl::pTk=SCALAR(0x7ff211005e80)', 0) called + at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90/blib/lib/Tcl/pTk.pm line 869 Tcl::pTk::MainLoop() called at t/after.t line 36 t/after.t ..................... Failed 1/8 subtests t/afterDestroy.t .............. Undefined subroutine &Tcl::_current_re +fs_widget called at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90/blib/lib/Tcl/ +pTk/Widget.pm line 1308. at t/afterDestroy.t line 15. [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Tk, Tcl/Tk, Tkx by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2016 at 02:33 UTC
Tcl::pTk fails all the tests It also complains that Tix is not included. Is this true (something I can ignore... ??) Am I missing something? Can't really ignore it, Tix plays a part in the "looks". Should be simple to install, last time I did it with http://downloads.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/releases/ `teacup update-self teacup verify teacup install Tix teacup install Plotchart teacup install ctext` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Tk, Tcl/Tk, Tkx by Sandy (Curate) on Mar 04, 2016 at 02:39 UTC
Re^5: Tk, Tcl/Tk, Tkx by vkon (Curate) on Mar 06, 2016 at 17:50 UTC
Re^2: Tk, Tcl/Tk, Tkx by Sandy (Curate) on Mar 04, 2016 at 00:36 UTC
thank you, that is the kind of info I was looking for	[reply]

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