I agree. Tabs should default unless a min version check on the platform fails. The original suggestion for making the option to still host dialogs in windows was mine, I believe, large for this reason, ie. building for OS X 10.6 and Tk 8.4 which doesn’t have the tabs widget.
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On Jun 21, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Christof Ressi info@christofressi.com wrote:
basically, because some TclTk versions on macOS would just crash when using tabs.
Wow, Tk never ceases to amaze me...
Does this also happen with the Tcl/Tk version that is included in the "official" macOS app bundle?
Could we do a runtime check for specific Tcl/Tk versions that are known to work?
I think the tabbed preferences are just so nice and it would be shame to hide them from the user by default...
(At the very least, we should use tabbed preference by default on Windows and Linux :-)
Christof
On 21.06.2023 00:07, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
On 6/20/23 20:35, Christof Ressi wrote: First off: thanks Miller for this historic release :-)
I just discovered the new tabbed preferences and I really like them! Thanks IOhannes!
Question: why do we have both tabbed and non-tabbed preferences? This feels very weird to me. I don't see any advantages in the non-tabbed preferences... (I find them rather grotesque).
basically, because some TclTk versions on macOS would just crash when using tabs. so I needed a fallback for this case anyhow (that, albeit grotesque, is still somewhat useable)
gmds IOhannes
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