Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"?

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From	John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"?
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> I suppose the 'advantage' of this is that it will replace tk widgets 
> with equivalent ttk widgets, if they exist and have the same name. I 
> believe one has to program them differently, however, so the replacement 
> cannot be transparent and one mush know anyway what gets replaced and 
> what not.

Grr, sounds like a pain if I want to use the new widgets. Does this cause conflict with someone who isn't running 8.5, or will they still see the older widgets as normal?

I'm tempted just to go back to wxPython. Two sets of widgets in Tkinter is a little annoying.

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How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 17:48 -0800
  Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-03-02 21:47 -0500
    Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-03 14:34 +1100
    Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 21:06 -0800
      Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 17:39 -0800
        Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 18:04 -0800
        Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 21:53 -0800
      Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2012-03-04 20:58 -0500
    Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 21:06 -0800

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