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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> anygui-devel
anygui-devel
Re: [Anygui-devel] On AnyGUI Core
by Peter Damoc other posts by this author
Aug 7 2005 11:42PM messages near this date
Re: [Anygui-devel] On AnyGUI Core | Re: [Anygui-devel] On AnyGUI Core
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:13:38 +0300, David McNab <david@[...].nz>   
wrote:

>  Peter Damoc wrote:
> >>> There is currently no such thing
> >> True, but (IMHO) the PMW/Tkinter combination comes very close
> >> (http://pmw.sourceforge.net).
> 
> > anything Tkinter makes me thing at ugly GUIs
> 
>  That's because most tk gui authors don't take the time to style their
>  interfaces.
> 
>  Agreed - default tkinter looks horrible. For instance, the default grey
>  background and bold text for fields - a graphic design abortion!
> 
>  The beauty of Tkinter is that it's accessed through python classes. So
>  all you have to do is write a subclass once for each of the widget
>  classes you use, and all the ugliness goes away.
> 
>  D

Does Tkinter supports skins? Simply changing the bgcolour or the font
don't cut it... it still looks ugly by todays standards.

Peter.


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