Now that Tile is at 0.7.5 and all 'compatbility options' have been removed, it is impossible to convert many applications to use Tile with the simple recipe of "namespace import -force ttk::*" and a bit of manual tweaking (this was reasonably possible with Tile < 0.7).  In fact even Tk's built in dialogs will throw errors all over the place with such an approach.  This page is here to help (hopefully!).

I believe the first lesson in migration is a mental one.  Tile is designed to be different.  Tk was designed so that everything "just works", but Tile is designed so that you have to follow a strict path to achieve your platform-native look.  This means that obvious things you may have learned from Tk are just wrong now.  For example:

Eg1: What font does this label have?

Tk: set font [[$label cget -font]] ; set size [[font measure $font $text]]

Ttk: error no such option '-font'...

or

Eg2: This widget's a bit cramped, let me give it some more space: $widget configure -borderwidth 4

Ttk: error no such option '-borderwidth'

So you have to recognise that your entire approach will have to be different to cope with Tile.  It would have been pretty easy to code Tile deal with most standard options just like Tk does, but the developers appear to have made a conscious decision not to do anything like that. (Note that this page does not attempt to justify why the Tile developers rejected the idea of allowing configuration options to actually work and forced the programmer down the path of using styles for ''absolutely everything''.)

Note: currently most of the answers here are empty.  Tile's documentation wasn't too helpful, so I'm hoping that one of the Tile developers might step in with some answers.

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Here are some common issues in migrating to Tile, together with their resolutions:

1) Tk's dialogs manually adjust buttons with, for example, '$button configure -relief sunken'.  Tile has no '-relief' option.  How can a dialog's code programmatically press a button with Tile?

Answer: ...

2) Labels, checkbuttons etc all have a variety of wrapping options so text can wrap across multiple lines.  How can this effect be achieved with Tile?

Answer: ...

3) Tk's menubuttons have a '-indicatoron' option.  How is this handled in Tile?

Answer: ...