Purpose: to discuss this great looking interface, provide tips on using the toolkit, and hopefully deal objectively with the current Tix versions. * What is Tix/ Tix is an extension of [Tcl]/[Tk] that provides a variety of [megawidget]s for [GUI] development. * What megawidgets does it contain? * Notebook, panedwindow, scrolledwidgets, tabular listbox, hierarchical listbox, fileselection dialogs, directory tree and directory list, * Tix also supports the display items and styles concepts, as well as a megawidget framework * How is it different from [BLT]/[Bwidget]s/etc. ? What can one do with Tix that can't be done elsewhere? * Is Tix still being maintained? * Does Tix work with Tk 8.4.4? ---- [Ioi Lam] originally created Tix. His major technical concern appears to be enhancement of Tix's functionality. His code is at http://tixlibrary.sf.net/ . [Mike Clarkson] maintains the stable release at http://tix.sourceforge.net/ . The main focus is stability and portability to other interpreters like Python. ---- [lv] Would someone outline the differences between the two forks of Tix? ---- [Python] includes support for Tix along with [Tkinter] as part of recent releases (since 2.1), but you will need the version from http://tix.sourceforge.net/ . It is documented in the stardard Python Library Reference: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-Tix.html This makes possible such projects as the [Tixapps] framework http://tix.sourceforge.net/Tixapps/ which is a library and suite of programs, including Tixinspect and TixDebug, which work as either Tcl or Tkinter applications. [Perl]/Tk builds incorporates most of Tix; notice, for example, [http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/pTk/HList.htm]. ---- See also [TixDebug], [Tixapps], [Tixinfo], [TixInspect], [TixClips], [TixXf], ---- [Category Package] | [Category GUI]