Re: [MACTCL] Which Tk apps look best on Aqua/OS X?

[Kevin W. <sw...@wo...>]

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J=E9r=F4me Gagnon-Voyer wrote:

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| Le 04-07-17, =E0 13:35, Kevin Walzer a =E9crit :

|> AMSN  (http://amsn.sourceforge.net), an MSN Messenger client. Also a
|> good looking application. A few small things don't adhere perfectly to
|> the HIG, like fonts on buttons, etc., but the GUI design shows a lot o=
f
|> care in its construction overall.

See this screenshot for an example of what I am talking about:
http://www.cmq.qc.ca/4w/amsn/screenshot2.jpg.

The fonts on the buttons don't look quite right; the type looks too
heavy, too bold. Perhaps it's that they are bold font and should be
regular.

That's a small issue. This is clearly a very well-designed application
interface--and it looks OS X-native. You've done a great job with it.

When I said that you can't tell which toolkit was used to create the
interface, what I meant is that you can't tell whether it's Tcl/Tk, or
another GUI toolkit like Cocoa/Interface Builder, or even a non-native
toolkit like wxWidgets or Qt. That's a compliment.

Here's a screenshot of what a more generic Tk application running on OS
X under Tk Aqua ooks like:

http://www.wordtech-software.com/tkbibtex.jpg

It doesn't look quite as native. It probably takes some extra work and
tweaking to the interface to get it integrating harmoniously on OS X.


Kevin
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Kevin Walzer, PhD
WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X
http://www.wordtech-software.com
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mailto:sw...@wo...
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