Introduction
The Tile Widget Set is a next-generation re-implementation of many of the core Tk widgets, along with the addition of several new widgets. With Tile, Tk applications can achieve an appearance much closer to native platform widgets, as well as take advantage of a modern, highly dynamic theme engine to produce a wide variety of alternative user interface styles. Tile widgets complement the existing Tk widgets, and Tile is currently being incorporated directly into Tk.
Features
- A revised and expanded version of the TIP #48 style engine
- Native look and feel under Windows XP
- Native look and feel under other Windows versions
- "Revitalized" look and feel under Unix
- scrollbar, button, checkbutton, radiobutton, menubutton, label, frame, and labelframe widgets, plus a partial implementation of the scale widget
- new notebook and progressbar widgets
Themes
| The tile package contains the following built-in themes | |
|---|---|
| classic | the classic Motif-style appearance |
| default | a simpler, streamlined look for X11 |
| alt | a "revitalized" look and feel similar to GTK+'s default theme and Windows NT appearance |
| winnative | which uses the native Win32 API to draw widgets |
| xpnative | which uses the Windows XP "Visual Styles" API |
| step | an experimental playground for testing out new ideas, such as NeXTStep-style scrollbars. |