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Re: Can TK be iSexy?
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| alex.e.c@gmail.com 2007-04-24, 10:06 pm |
| Larry's totally right on both counts. I've never seen a sixties era
mainframe; and yes. Can I get my application to look good without
actually changing too much code?
The whole theming thing is interesting; but until the OS and TK agree
on how widgets looks, getting a TK application to look good on, say,
Vista, OS-X or Beryl is a way away.
What I want to make is a touch screen kiosk application which looks
good and do it quickly. I doesn't have to blend with the OS. What
would be nice would be a totally graphical interface; no hard edges. I
think the canvas solution is a great idea. You could maximum the main
window and remove it's title bar and enforcea global grab. Then add a
nice whie canvas and start sticking some no relief buttons to it. Add
a nice roll over effect to the buttons and some nice graphics of (in
my case) horses to it.
Bob your unkle. A sexy rocking TK app.
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| Bruce Hartweg 2007-04-24, 10:06 pm |
| alex.e.c@gmail.com wrote:
> Larry's totally right on both counts. I've never seen a sixties era
> mainframe; and yes. Can I get my application to look good without
> actually changing too much code?
>
> The whole theming thing is interesting; but until the OS and TK agree
> on how widgets looks, getting a TK application to look good on, say,
> Vista, OS-X or Beryl is a way away.
>
> What I want to make is a touch screen kiosk application which looks
> good and do it quickly. I doesn't have to blend with the OS. What
> would be nice would be a totally graphical interface; no hard edges. I
> think the canvas solution is a great idea. You could maximum the main
> window and remove it's title bar and enforcea global grab. Then add a
> nice whie canvas and start sticking some no relief buttons to it. Add
> a nice roll over effect to the buttons and some nice graphics of (in
> my case) horses to it.
>
> Bob your unkle. A sexy rocking TK app.
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For a kiosk full screen app - check into an overrideredirect window
to take over the whole screen
Bruce
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| Christian Gollwitzer 2007-04-25, 8:06 am |
| alex.e.c@gmail.com wrote:
> Larry's totally right on both counts. I've never seen a sixties era
> mainframe; and yes. Can I get my application to look good without
> actually changing too much code?
Are you aware of tile and ttk in Tk8.5? Is this still not enough
eye-candy for your needs?
Christian
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