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

[Michael K. <mi...@mu...>]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Joe English wrote:

> 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".

Most of the toolbar buttons I have seen in Aqua apps aren't bevel buttons. 
They are just icons flat on the frame - the look you get with a label 
rather than a button, the way other platforms look with the "flat" relief. 
Tk's button (and probably Tile's) don't allow you to get a flat relief on 
Aqua, though.  Flat -> bevel button, whereas with label flat is really 
flat.

>> 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.

For Kevin: what I've done for MIB Smithy is just...

if {[string equal [tk windowingsystem] "aqua"]}
      interp alias {} ::ttk::scrollbar {} ::scrollbar
}

That way the scrollbar gets overrided on Aqua without changes to Tile. 
It's only 3 lines...

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Michael Kirkham
www.muonics.com