What is the relation between tk and tix? I don't use either of them for my own purposes, but tcl-based packages use them. Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Tk is the toolkit written in C by the guys behind Tcl. It provides fairly low level widgets which have native look and feel for UNIX, Win32 and Mac. Bindings have been created for it for Perl and other languages. Tix is a set of composite widgets which use the Tk widgets as their base. Tix is basically glue code which saves a Tk writer a lot of effort. For example, you want a button box of some sort: in Tk you create a set of buttons, a set of labels and a frame, then arrange them to look like a button box. If you have Tix, you just use the button box composite widget which does it all for you. The result is the same, but it's 2 lines of code not 20. There are other composite widget sets for Tcl/Tk, but Tix is the most popular.
What is the relation between tk and tix? I don't use either of them for my own purposes, but tcl-based packages use them.
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