Suggestion for reusing existing TCL/Tk scripts and migration to Python environment

Sudhir_Ingstron

Description:

Are these statements correct?

1. Virtually all features available in TCL/TK APIs are available in Python APIs.
2. New features development has started happening more in Python APIs than in TCL/TK since the last two releases and will continue to happen so in future.
3. Anyone using Python APIs will be future proof in terms of being able to accommodate new features made available in Hyperworks environment but that may not be the case for TCL/TK APIs as all new features may not be developed in TCL/TK. TCL/TK would be more for legacy support.

What is the best way forward if someone has already developed quite a few TCL/TK scripts but want to change over to Python environment while not wanting to rewrite those TCL/TK scripts in Python.

I will especially welcome comments from ALTAIR Development / Support Team.

Product/Topic Name : Hyperworks / Scripting

 

Roger DeAngelis_21630

Not sure if this helps, but here is an effortless integration of
Python with the Altair SLC Analytics Workbench.

This program below creates a window with a "Hello World" button that prints a message
to the console when clicked, and a red QUIT button to close the window.

Tkinter is the standard Python interface to the Tcl/Tk GUI toolkit.
It is essentially a thin, object-oriented layer on top of the Tcl/Tk libraries.
Tcl is a dynamic scripting language, and Tk is a GUI toolkit
implemented in C that runs embedded within Tcl. When using Tkinter in Python,
it internally assembles Tcl/Tk commands and passes them to a Tcl interpreter for execution.
This means that Tkinter acts as a bridge allowing Python to control the Tcl/Tk GUI system.

&init;
OPTIONS NOERRORABEND;
options set=PYTHONHOME "D:\python310";
proc python;
submit;
import tkinter as tk
class Application(tk.Frame):
def init(self, master=None):
super().init(master)
self.pack()
self.create_widgets()

def create_widgets(self):

    self.hi_there = tk.Button(self)

    self.hi_there["text"] = "Hello World\n(click me)"

    self.hi_there["command"] = self.say_hi

    self.hi_there.pack(side="top")


    self.quit = tk.Button(self, text="QUIT", fg="red",

                          command=root.destroy)

    self.quit.pack(side="bottom")


def say_hi(self):

    print("hi there, everyone!")

root = tk.Tk()
app = Application(master=root)
app.mainloop()
endsubmit;
quit;run;

This Window Pops up

+---------------------+
| Hellow World |
| click me |
+---------------------+
| QUIT |
+---------------------+