[WJG] For the past ten years or so I've been a mixed Windows/[Linux] user. Jolted along by a presentation that I made at an OpenAdvantage [http://www.openadvantage.org] seminar earlier this year, I decided to put windows on the back-burner and spend my time running linux. Putting OS considerations aside I needed to think about re-working my custom apps running under Tcl/Tk on windows. Windows and MacOS discourage us from fiddling about with the appearance of things whereas Linux, well... Now, that I've settled into things and got [Gnome] looking the way I like it, I want my tcl apps to fall in line.  Not an easy thing to do in Tk - under Linux as everything still looks like Motif. So the dilema is GTk or Tk? Well -Gtk. But what about Tcl? If we refer to the Gtk+ developer site [http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html] we do find bindings listed and, as seems par for everying else, Python is the preferred choice. But why should it be?

[LV] Another consideration - check out [Tile], which, as [Ttk], comes with [Tk] starting in Tcl/Tk 8.5.
Perhaps it would be worthwhile seeing how to improve the Ttk-Gtk cooperation?
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 #!/usr/bin/env python

 # example helloworld.py

 import pygtk
 pygtk.require('2.0')
 import gtk

 class HelloWorld:


    def hello(self, widget, data=None):
        print "Hello World"

    def delete_event(self, widget, event, data=None):
        print "delete event occurred"
        return False

    def destroy(self, widget, data=None):
        print "destroy signal occurred"
        gtk.main_quit()

    def __init__(self):
        self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
        self.window.connect("delete_event", self.delete_event)
        self.window.connect("destroy", self.destroy)
        self.window.set_border_width(10)
        self.button = gtk.Button("Hello World")
        self.button.connect("clicked", self.hello, None)
        self.button.connect_object("clicked", gtk.Widget.destroy, self.window)
        self.window.add(self.button)
        self.button.show()
        self.window.show()

    def main(self):
        gtk.main()

 if __name__ == "__main__":
    hello = HelloWorld()
    hello.main()



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 #!/bin/sh
 # the next line restarts using tclsh \
 exec tclsh "$0" "$@"

 package require Gnocl

 gnocl::window -child [gnocl::button -text "Hello World" -onButtonPress exit] -onDelete exit

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