Version 8 of Perfect Aqua Look

Updated 2005-05-13 10:18:32

Aqua is the name of the native MacOS X look.

Even with the help of tile, Tk applications do not yet look fully native out of the box. It is, however, possible to improve the look of the default widgets with careful settings. This page collects some of them:

• White border around Tk widgets : Some Tk widgets that do not yet have a tile equivalent, such as tk_optionMenu, display a white border around them that make them stand out against regular OSX pinstripe background. It is possible to minimize this effect with : -borderwidth 0 -bg #ececec

Lars H: Does that address a different issue than that which is addressed by setting the -highlightbackground? Cf. discussion at the end of button.

• Tile's scrollbars are not the Aqua ones, whereas recent versions of Tk without Tile use the native Aqua scrollbars. Why is this?

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Category GUI See also TclTkAquaBI