I had tried that, but I was concerned that it returned a None, so I thought there was no way to refer to the screen after using it. Trying it again, it seems:
import turtle turtle.setup(800, 600) wn = turtle.Screen() alex = turtle.Turtle() alex.forward(200) wn.exitonclick() works just fine. Thanks, Corey! jeff elkner open book project http://openbookproject.net On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Corey Richardson <kb1...@aim.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/31/2011 04:59 PM, Jeff Elkner wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm working on an introductory CS book using Python with the turtle >> module, but I'm finding the inability of turtle.Screen() to take >> screen size arguments to be a real pain. The screen size appears to >> depend on the screen size of the host environment, which means >> standardizing screen shots for the book becomes impossible. >> >> Any thoughts on this issue? It would be a huge help in promoting >> Python's use in education if we could make use of such a potentially >> fine module as the turtle module, but I'm finding it very difficult to >> write curriculum materials that use it since students don't have >> control over the turtle's screen in any easy to use way. >> >> Thanks! >> > > I believe you want turtle.setup, > http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html#turtle.setup > > - -- > Corey Richardson > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN5Vf+AAoJEAFAbo/KNFvp6KwH/1MPtZirFpQuUKJvNFIFl7y1 > /8b6txcu23RnGSdwcOwL/lhsLqgA5moNotPEn67ifYSTXKJuxsLvCqbmpin0q4Yi > ea9Zw3yNwDb5DCm9jofVZHbSE7h/4v2a6aIUzg4RrMzTiie2KmNuoTpKNYYSu+Wo > 2HxXqJQBFV1d8UJE4tTbQ/1jUOjAi3IZgq7F79Z1lyFwuuvD+0pPwInFnn0iZqo4 > Gl68ndOuB96ZnEtgCtaSdbaP3oPXHWHis/JI2AgtULHkni0ZJXId/DCRtX0S+k7z > FyMLw7HTPe1GIxOuOW2/ObWMDP1AvMFzbdIES5SVaeHyBFC3/tg4tGEskoP1Ym4= > =QBCe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
