Re: [Tile-dev] ANN: VuMan, a Man Page Viewer for OS X: written with TclTkAqua and Tile

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Kevin Walzer wrote:
> Joe English wrote:
> | [ttk::button .b -style toolbutton ...] will probably be
> | closer to the desired effect [...]
>
> It doesn't seem to be supported at all on the Mac: I get an error when I
> try to define it as such,

Sorry, my mistake: that should be "-style Toolbutton" (with a
capital T).

> and I can't find any setting for "toolbutton"
> in the button.tcl file of my Tile library

The Toolbutton style is defined by individual themes
not by the widget; see e.g., library/aquaTheme.tcl, macosx/aquaTheme.c.
On OSX, the Toolbutton style is mapped to an Aqua "Bevel Button".

> By the way, I have hacked the combobox.tcl file to provide standard Tk
> scrollbars, since the Tile scrollbars don't work as well on the Mac as
> the native ones; I also adjusted the font code in that file so the text
> in the combobox integrates better.  I'm distributing the modified file
> as part of my application.

We do intend to make ttk::scrollbars look native on OSX,
as soon as we can resolve the impedance mismatch between
Tile and Carbon -- but that looks like it will take a while,
so distributing a patched copy of Tile with your application
is the best way to go for now.

> Should I submit a patch of some sort? I don't
> want to muddy the waters of the main distribution with a Mac-specific
> hack, but I'll put something together (I'll send the file for you to
> diff, if nothing else) if you want.

Yes, please do post it to SourceForge.


--Joe English

  jen...@fl...