[Pythonmac-SIG] Tkinter and Python 2.2 (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl
Wed Dec 22 11:06:55 CET 2004

If I have the source code for TkAqua, can it be modified and recompiled as a separate binary for PoserPython? [I'm guessing this is preferable to trying to get one instance of TkAqua to work for both instances of Python] Does it make any difference if I don't have any other instances of TkAqua on my system?

I don't think there's any need to recompile TkAqua, or anything drastic like that. If you have TkAqua installed on your system the only thing you really need to do is build the _tkinter extension module against that TkAqua.

Now, depending on how old the Python is that PoserPython is based on this may be a bit of work, but doable. If PoserPython's version is one that already supported linking against AquaTk you just rip the relevant portion out of the toplevel setup.py for that Python version. If the Tk support code in setup.py has all sorts of references to "-framework Tk" then that should work.

If it appears that setup.py for the relevant Python version does not support AuqaTk then there's a bit more work to do. You can try to get setup.py from a recent (2.3 or later) Python distribution and working from there.

Trying to isolate only the _tkinter-relevant code in Python's main setup.py can be a bit daunting. It may be worthwhile to look at the setup.py for Fredrik Lund's PIL (the Python imaging l,ibrary) package. It has also isolated and duplicated/modified the _tkinter build code and incorporated it into their own setup.py (because PIL will optionally build a custom _tkinter that has support for PIL images).

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