G'day Sandy,

"On MAC, results look crappy using Quartz."

In general, I don't disagree with this at all.

Having said that, if your only issue is one of look and feel, then that's what I'd target for change (rather than rewriting all of your Tk applications in a different flavour of Tk).

Unfortunately, while I can agree with "look crappy" in general, that doesn't really provide much in the way of concrete information. Here's a couple of suggestions.

The default fonts (Times, Helvetica and Courier) are intended to work on any platform; however, that's where it ends — there's no promise of how they'll look on any particular platform. Consider changing these to ones you prefer. I don't normally use a serif font in Tk applications; for sans-serif and monospace my personal preferences would possibly be Verdana and Menlo. Take a look Tk::Font.

I personally find the default look and feel to be rather chunky; in particular, the 2px borders around buttons, scrollbars and other widgets. Simply changing those to 1px may make a big difference. See Tk::options for the standard options; follow links from the Tk distribution page for widget-specific options.

You can use the option database (Tk::option) to make those changes globally, for all of your applications, as a one-off task; you don't need to go through every application and change every instance of -font, -borderwidth, and so on.

— Ken

In reply to Re^3: Tcl::Tk exit ( Tcl::pTk ) by kcott
in thread Tcl::Tk exit by Sandy

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