TclMacBag - A bag of Mac widgets for Tcl/Tk

Features

This Tcl/Tk extension allows developers to use attractive Mac styled widgets, knowing they'll be rendered platform appropriately on other platforms like Windows and X11. It shares Ttk/Tile's goal of a developer using one command in their code and the result appearing native on the platform it's running on. See the Widget Shots Gallery for a sample of what's available.

Features:

• Written entirely in Tcl and isn't a hook into any operating system APIs or libraries.
• Greatly reduce the amount of platform-specific UI code.
• Easily dissectable if you only need one or two widgets from the set.
• Simple demo scripts with very easy to understand example code.
• Use with other languages that use the Tk Toolkit: eg, Python users report that TclMacBag is "particularly easy to install" using Tkinter.
• Convenience global vars for inter-widget spacing, etc, appropriate per platform.

This extension package has always been intended as a bridge. It's the author's hope to have swathes of its functionality superceded by improvements to Tk and Ttk/Tile over time.

Commands

General Widgets:

• Combo - Used for item selection (on Mac, a menubutton and menu; elsewhere, a read-only value combobox).
• Entry - Tile/Ttk's entry and a default popup menu for Cut/Copy/Paste, etc.
• Flatbutton - On Mac, a flat transparent button whose image darkens when pressed.
• Groupbox - Mac Groupbox widget.
• Helpbutton - Platform appropriate Help button.
• Listbox - Tk listbox widget with Tile focus highlighting.
• Scopebutton - Specify the scope of an operation, filter or sort values in a data display such as a listbox.
• Scrollbar - Tk or Ttk/Tile scrollbar, depending on Tile theme.
• Searchentry - Search entry with user image.
• Text - Tk text widget with Tile focus highlighting, and a default popup menu for Cut/Copy/Paste, etc.

Style Widgets:

• Actionbutton - Presents an 'Action' styled menubutton on Mac platforms.
• PNB - Panther (10.3+) style notebook widget, buttons with a choise of styles.
• Stylebutton - Mac style toolbar buttons with a choice of styles.
• Viewbutton - Mac style 'View' buttons with a choice of styles.

Disclosure:

• Dbutton - A button which exposes a hidden frame of your chosing.
• Ddialog - A button which launches a choice/selection related dialog.
• Dframe - An image and label which expose a hidden frame directly beneath.

Geometry, Frames and Things:

• Boxframe - A label-free labelframe without padding.
• Colorframe - A frame with support for user colours.
• Scrolledframe - A scrolled frame with Pinstripe support.
• Toolbar - Toolbar show/hide button in your Mac window decor.
• Toplevel - A variant with Pinstripe support.

There are some Miscellaneous Resources used internally in TclMacBag which might also be useful in your apps.

Download

TclMacBag's files can now be found at SourceForge.