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If the tix8184 DLL cannot be found, this is most likely
because you are running a Python binary with a different
relative path than the bog-standard c:\Python23\python.exe.
For example, the Pythonwin package lives in a site-packages
subdir!

To have Tix work in Pythonwin therefor, you'll have to add
another search path to the tix8.1/pkgIndex.tcl file, one
which uses the correct relative path for the DLLs dir. I added:

  lappend dirs [file join [file dirname [info nameofexe]] ..
.. .. DLLs]

(That's one line, with three ..'s). This'll look for a DLLs
dir 3 directories above the dir of the running binary.
Voila, it now works in Pythonwin as well as in IDLE and in
standalone scripts.

Martijn