[Kevin Walzer] provides this before-and-after comparison:
[http://www.wordtech-software.com/notile.jpg] vs.
[http://www.wordtech-software.com/tile.jpg]

These shots were taken under [MacOS X].  Kevin writes:
"[[t]]he differences are pretty clear: the         
[Tile] version picks up the pinstripe background, and also the [entry]              
[widget] looks native (without the outline that one sees in the standard          
[Tk] version).  . . .  I           
don't personally see a huge difference on [Windows] when Tile is used             
there (standard Tk looks pretty much like any other Win2K appp), but            
it's pretty dramatic on the Mac."

[DL] But what's with the border going right through the words "Output Format" and "Open New File?"


[PT] You should try it on Windows XP then. See the various screenshots of the [tile] demo
at http://tktable.sf.net/tile
Here for instance, is the normal Luna theme (blue). On the right are normal Tk widgets, the rest are [tile] widgets.

[http://www.man.ac.uk/~zzcgudf/tcl/wikipix/tile_xp.png]
[http://www.man.ac.uk/~zzcgudf/tcl/wikipix/tile_blue.png]

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[RLH] - Yup, it will be a very good day for Tk when [Tile] is rolled in.

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''Customizing Tile Widgets''

Tile is a big step forward, but also somewhat of a step to the side at present.  It seems as if Tile is designed so that background colours, wrapping (-wraplength), etc are all defined only in styles.  But what if the developer wants to make a ''single'' button or label or checkbutton look different?

DLR: The current way to do that is creating a new style by means of subclasing a existing style and applying that to the particular widget. However, I think this should be transparent to the user and that all widget options (specially things like bg, etc.) should "just work" like in Tk. Currently what Tile does is ignore them (compatibility options)

[WHD]: Bear in mind that the current Tk widgets aren't going away; Tcl/Tk 8.5 will include both.  So if you want to control everything, you have the option of dropping back to the older widget set.

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See [Indeterminate Progress Bar with Tile] for some tips on building an indeterminate progress bar using Tile.