Re: Philosophy of design question [Was: Re: [Patch] Patch for windows XP themed buttons/checkbuttons/radiobuttons

From: Georgios Petasis (petasis_at_iit.demokritos.gr)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:38:04 +0200

So, what will finally happen to the patch?

I think it would be a good idea as a first step to add some
public C API to tk that can draw the various XP elements.
My patch targeted primarily buttons, but as buttons have
noumerous uses we can start with other widgets that cannot
be customised a lot (or usually developers don't change
their default look) like the entry widget, the text widget
and spinbox.

I suppose adding the XP drawing public API requires a TIP.
Any opinions on this?
(I got the feeling that despite some recent interest, like
the tk revitalisation project, again nothing moves towards
a better tk :-))

George

"Mark Roseman" <mark@markroseman.com> wrote in message
news:mark-BC2444.07250514092003@news.cogeco.ca...
> In article <bjsok2$r6s$1@srv38.cas.org>, lvirden@yahoo.com wrote:
> > I think that there should be a way for the developer to return to
non-native
> > scrollbars, dialogs, etc.
> >
> > It should be a decision made by the developer. I have read comments
> > in the past month, either here or on the wiki, by at least one person
> > (I can't recall whom - perhaps GPS?) who was struggling in their attempt
for a
> > 'one look across all platforms' type approach.
>
>
> The developer may want to decide that, but that doesn't mean
> Tk should accommodate them. The one look across all platforms
> is such a fringe (and usually terribly misguided) requirement
> that I think it would be a complete waste of effort to even
> begin to try to support it.
>
> Mark

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