PAGE - A Python Drag-and-Drop GUI Generator

Page is implemented as an extension of Visual Tcl, originally by Stewart Allen with a new module for generating a single Python module which implements the the GUI window. It is not an IDE for building an entire application. It is a tool for creating a single window. It is written in Tcl. The extension module was inspired by a similar module written by >Constantin Teodorescu to generate Java code.

Systems Supported

Currently the resulting GUI windows run on Linux.

Software versions are:

Tcl/Tk 8.3.2
Tix 8.1.1
Python 2.0

Tk Widgets supported:

TopLevel
Menubutton
Checkbutton
Radiobutton
Listbox
Text
Frame
Scale
Button
Entry
Label

Tix Widgets supported:

TixLabelFrame
TixScrolledListBox
TixScrolledText
TixOptionMenu
TixLabelEntry
TixComboBox
TixTree
TixNoteBook
TixMeter
TixBalloon

Other features:

Menu Editor.
Attribute Editor.
GUI for Event binding.
The ability to debug the Python code in Python and return to PAGE to modify the GUI.

Installation

Installation under Linux is something of a fiddle because one must have Tcl/Tk, Tix, and Python. I have chosen to use the latest versions of all three components. That will mean that you must:

Build and install Tcl/Tk.
Build and install Tix.
Update Tkinter support.
Install PyTix.

Documentation

Users Guide

A fairly comprehensive example including the generated Python code.

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