An extension for Ttk/Tile that uses the GTK GUI toolkit.
See: http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=45
NEM To use this extension, download and install the package for your system from the link above. Then you simply need to require the package and instruct ttk to use this theme:
package require ttk::theme::tilegtk 0.2 ttk::style theme use tilegtk # Then code Ttk GUI as usual, and the GTK widgets will be used: pack [ttk::button .b -text "Hello!" -command exit]
peterc 2009-01-28: I get this error when running the above on Windows XP SP3. (The tilegtk0.2 dir is in directory in ::auto_path.)
NEM Looks like a missing DLL somewhere. There is a utility called "depends.exe" you can get for Windows that will show you what the missing DLL is. I guess maybe a missing GTK dll?
D. McC 2009 Jan 28: Thanks! That's better than no documentation at all. Just a few questions (I'll probably think of more later): Where do you install it on Linux? Does it pick up on whatever the existing GTK2 theme is at the time (e.g., Stardust), as gnocl does, or does it give you only a single GTK2-like theme? Is there anything like a detailed explanation of what makes it work?
I'm really interested in this, if it works, because I'm writing at least one application specifically for Puppy Linux, on which the preferred look now is GTK+ 2.0, with Stardust being the default theme. (Good thing--it's the only good-looking GTK2 theme available on Puppy, so far as I can see.) I guess I could learn gnocl if necessary (I have, a little, already)--but it would be a much more efficient use of my time if I could just write standard Ttk GUI code and have it come out looking like Stardust!
NEM As far as I know (I'm not the author), TileGTK uses real GTK widgets to implement a Ttk "theme". Therefore, it should pick up whatever GTK theme your Linux system is using. To install it on Linux, just unpack the tarball somewhere on your auto_path. Likely candidates are /usr/local/lib or /usr/share/lib. On my ubuntu system, the default place for extensions seems to be /usr/local/share/tcltk.
D. McC 2009 Feb 1: OK, I got around to installing it and trying the sample code you provided. I got a ttk::button displayed, all right, but it didn't pick up on the Stardust theme, which gnocl did immediately pick up on. Unless this problem can be solved, I guess I'll have to stick with gnocl for now. It does appear to be possible to use gnocl for a fair number of things, but I'd still prefer to use Ttk widgets if I could get them to look like Stardust.
WJG (02-02-09) Gnocl can do 'a fair number of things'. Surely you you mean a great deal of things? What Gtk features do you need that aren't already supported in Gnocl? Features that you believe Tk has that Gnocl hasn't? This is a unique opportunity to contribute to three great openSource projects - Puppy, your own apps and Gnocl! Remember, Gnocl isn't a work around or revamp and Gnocl isn't 'picking up' on themes, it works directly with the Gtk libraries. For Puppy development I would have thought it the first, rather than second choice.