Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-21 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Terry Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 21 May 2008 08:10:56 -0500 > "Edward K. Ream" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Packages which ubuntu thinks depend on tk8.4, like PIL, ImageTk, > > > > tkcvs etc., you will need to build from source, but other

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-21 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:22:51 +0300 "Ville M. Vainio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - I have no idea where the links files are. But since Python works > > it should allow Ubuntu to restart even if ubuntu starts using the > > newly-installed python. And indeed, restarting Ubuntu went well. >

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-21 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 21 May 2008 08:10:56 -0500 "Edward K. Ream" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Packages which ubuntu thinks depend on tk8.4, like PIL, ImageTk, > > > tkcvs etc., you will need to build from source, but others should > > > work ok. > > > This is a nightmare. Googling download ImageTk b

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-21 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I have no idea where the links files are. But since Python works it > should allow Ubuntu to restart even if ubuntu starts using the > newly-installed python. And indeed, restarting Ubuntu went well. I'm still a bit

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-21 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Ville M. Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Packages which ubuntu thinks depend on tk8.4, like PIL, ImageTk, tkcvs >> > etc., you will need to build from source, but others sh

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-21 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a nightmare. Googling download ImageTk brings me to > http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/python/python-imaging-tk > > If you can understand this gobbledygook you understand far more than I do. You don't need to

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-21 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Ville M. Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Packages which ubuntu thinks depend on tk8.4, like PIL, ImageTk, tkcvs > > etc., you will need to build from source, but others should work ok. > This is a nightmare. Googling download ImageTk brings me to h

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-20 Thread Terry Brown
An addendum, I just switched to a new machine and for some reason when compiling PIL had to change two occurrences of '#include "tk.h"' to '#include "tcl8.5/tk.h"', don't remember having done that before. The gtk interface will fix all this... :-) Cheers -Terry On Sun, 18 May 2008 13:30:16 -050

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-18 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Ville M. Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Terry Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I don't advise anyone to try and get anti-aliased fonts working in > > Linux (Ubuntu) by compiling python against Tk8.5, there's too muc

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-13 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Ville M. Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for these instructions re anti-aliased fonts. As you know, I've been obsessed with key bindings lately, but I plan to get around to rescuing the ubuntu version of Leo soon... Edward --~--~-~--~~-

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-12 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Terry Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't advise anyone to try and get anti-aliased fonts working in > Linux (Ubuntu) by compiling python against Tk8.5, there's too much risk > of messing things up. But I think I have it working now, so if you > really

Re: Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-04-05 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Terry Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't advise anyone to try and get anti-aliased fonts working in > Linux (Ubuntu) by compiling python against Tk8.5, there's too much risk of > messing things up. But I think I have it working now, so if you really want

Antialiased fonts in Tk Tkinter in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-04-04 Thread Terry Brown
I don't advise anyone to try and get anti-aliased fonts working in Linux (Ubuntu) by compiling python against Tk8.5, there's too much risk of messing things up. But I think I have it working now, so if you really want to... Note: I upgraded to 8.04 because my attempts to get this working on 7.10