Re: main window in tkinter app

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:57:51 GMT, William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A short while ago someone posted that(unlike the examples) you should > use Tk as the base for your main window in tkinter apps, not Frame. Thus : > >class MyMain(Frame): >def __init__(self, master): >

Re: win32ui CreatePrintDialog

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:08:35 -0400, Chris Lambacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This question has come up a few times on the list with no one giving a public > answer. How do you use CreatePrintDialog from win32ui? > > About a year ago someone posted that: > dlg = win32ui.CreatePrintDial

Re: Tkinter grid layout

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:32:42 GMT, William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excuse me for intruding, but I followed examples and ended up with a > similar architecture: > > from Tkinter import * > class MyMain(Frame): > def __init__(self, master): > self.root = mast

Re: Tkinter grid layout

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:44:55 +0100, Richard Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got a tree control in Tkinter (using the ESRF Tree module) but I > can't get it to layout how I want it. > > I'd like to have it so that it streches north/south (anchored to the top > and bottom), is

Re: Tkinter Checkbutton initialization problem

On 03 Jul 2005 02:32:21 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Python 2.4, Windows XP. If I say: > > f = Frame() > f.grid() > v = IntVar() > c = Checkbutton(f, text='hi there', variable=v) > c.grid() > f.mainloop() > > then the checkbutton should initially d

Re: custom Tkinter ListBox selectMode

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:19:20 -0400, Ron Provost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've written a simple GUI which contains a listbox to hold some information. > I've found that the click-selection schemes provided by Tkinter are > insufficient for my needs. Essentiall I need to impletement a

Re: Python 2.1 / 2.3: xreadlines not working with codecs.open

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:23:34 +0200, Eric Brunel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just found a problem in the xreadlines method/module when used with > codecs.open: the codec specified in the open does not seem to be taken into > account by xreadlines which also

Re: tkinter radiobutton

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:34:50 GMT, William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am placing radiobuttons in a 4 X 4 matrix (using loops) and keep > references to them in a 2 dimensional list ( rBtns[r][c] ). It works > fine, and I can even make it so only one button per column can be > selected, by

Re: Frame widget (title and geometry)

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:21:01 -0400, Shankar Iyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am still new to Python and Tkinter, so I apologize in advance if I do not > word my question optimally. I am trying to use a frame widget as the parent > for other widgets. There is a cla

Python 2.1 / 2.3: xreadlines not working with codecs.open

Hi all, I just found a problem in the xreadlines method/module when used with codecs.open: the codec specified in the open does not seem to be taken into account by xreadlines which also returns byte-strings instead of unicode strings. For example, if a file foo.txt contains some text encoded

Re: Fast text display?

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 02:22:08 +0200, Riccardo Galli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using tkinter doesn't need downloading and installing only in Windows. > In *nix is not so common to have tcl/tk installed (and probably in Mac too) > > GUI cross platform need external support, in a OS or in another.

Re: Tkinter slowes down

On Sat, 28 May 2005 18:21:46 +0200, pavel.kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fredrik Lundh napsal(a): >> when you add an item to the canvas, it's part of the canvas >> until you remove it. if performance drops, it's usually because >> you keep adding new items without removing the old ones. >> >

Re: tkinter text width

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:14:02 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:36:18 +0200, "Eric Brunel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: This is the case on all platforms, but far more sensible on Windows: Windows attem

Re: tkinter text width

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:52:21 -0700, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] How might I query the size of a fixed-width font in pixles? It appears that the width of the font in points does not correlate with its width in pixels based on some simple expriments I have done. This is the case on

Re: tkinter text width

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:01:46 -0700, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, I would like for a tkinter text widget to be aware of how big the frame that contains it is, then I would like for it to reset its width to the appropriate number of characters when this frame changes size. Errr.

Re: Getting the sender widget's name in function (Tkinter)

On 26 Apr 2005 13:37:29 -0700, infidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: from Tkinter import Tk, Button def say_hello(event): print 'hello!' print event.widget['text'] root = Tk() button1 = Button(root, text='Button 1') button1.bind('', say_hello) button1.pack() button2 = Button(root, text='Button

Re: New to Tkinter...

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:35:03 -0400, Peter G Carswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good Morning. I am new to Tkinter. I have been testing the installation of Tkinter through the python web site. The first two test steps give no errors, 'import _tkinter' and 'import Tkinter'. However, the third step, '

Re: Tkinter Event Types

On 18 Apr 2005 13:48:50 -0700, codecraig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, When I do something like. s = Scale(master) s.bind("", callback) def callback(self, event): print event.type I see "7" printed out. Where are these constants defined for various event types? Basically i want to do somet

Re: Simple Python + Tk text editor

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:41:26 +0100, Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] And for my project (integration of Python and TeX) there is most unlikely to be a better one. Do you know the (apparently dead) project named e:doc? You can find it here: http://members.nextra.at/hfbuch/edoc/ It's a

Re: Things you shouldn't do

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:02:57 GMT, Andrew Dalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve wrote: [an anecdote on distinguishing l1 and 11] What are some of other people's favourite tips for avoiding bugs in the first place, as opposed to finding them once you know they are there? There's a good book on this

Re: problem with tkinter

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:32:59 +0200, Pierre Quentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Instead of indexing self.lab by strings, you can index them by the attributes themselves : self.lab[self.i], and change line 23 into for var in (self.s, self,i) I really think this is asking for trouble: I suppose t

Re: tkinter destroy()

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:37:10 GMT, max(01)* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi people. when i create a widget, such as a toplevel window, and then i destroy it, how can i test that it has been destroyed? the problem is that even after it has been destroyed, the instance still exists and has a tkinter nam

Re: How to ensure Maximize button shows in Linux/Unix (Tkinter)

On 26 Mar 2005 08:19:07 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Diez, Thanks for the quick reply. I am running this under KDE. I actually haven't tried doing so under any other wm for the moment. Any ideas how to get it to show in KDE? This is a tk bug; see: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/i

Re: scrollbar dependencies

On 24 Mar 2005 03:24:34 -0800, Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Next mystery : a picture drawn in the canvas c1 is scrollable. a picture-containing canvas "grided" in the canvas c1 is not. so why ??? Marion --- [snip] #---

Re: (Tkinter) Adding delay to PopUpMsg

On 17 Mar 2005 23:40:20 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am working on making something called a PopMsg widget which is actually identical to a Balloon widget from Pmw. Here is the code: ---code--- from Tkinter import * import time class PopMsg: def showmsg(self, event):

Re: Tkinter Bitmap Newbie question

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:57 GMT, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wim Goffin: But just to make sure I'm on the right track, - Is XBM the best way to for bitmaps? The ones I saw so far are all black and white. Do they also exist in color? XPM is the version of XBM with colour. - Is XBM al

Re: Setting default option values for Tkinter widgets

On 3 Mar 2005 03:02:48 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are certain options for Tkinter widgets that have default values that I don't much care for (borderwidth, font come to mind) and continuously change when I'm building interfaces. With a bit of tweaking I have been able to

Re: scrollbar dependencies

On 3 Mar 2005 02:38:59 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pardon a question I should already know the answer to, but what are the *args in the: def xscrollboth(*args): c1.xview(*args) c2.xview(*args) Thanks, Harlin If your question is about the syntax, it's just the way of passin

Re: scrollbar dependencies

On 3 Mar 2005 01:06:48 -0800, Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. I am using Tkinter and Pmw. I would like to build 2 canvases/frames that are scrollable together horizontally, and independently vertically (so, the vertical scrollbars should not be moved by the horizontal one). So I built a Pm

Re: Polling selections from a listbox (Tkinter)

On 26 Feb 2005 03:48:16 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Obviously when this starts up this is going to show selection #0 inside the label box. How do I make sure that whatever is arbitrarily selected ends up in the label box as this gui runs? I tried doing a bind: self.listbo

Re: Fonts

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:00:41 -0600, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm cpmpletely lost on fonts. I'm using Tkinter I do medarial = '-*-Arial-Bold-*-*--24-*-*-*-ISO8859-1" or Courier or Fixed in various sizes. Works great on my RH 7.2 But a small embedded system Im working on, nothing seems to work

Re: Mixing Txinter and Pygame

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:23:09 +1300, Tim Knauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] (When I'm starting on a language feature, though, I usually find I learn a lot more from worked examples than from straight command information. You may be interested in Tkinter best kept secret: the example scripts in

Re: 'modal dialogs' with Tkinter

l" or whatever buttons you want to use should then call dlg.destroy(). This will terminate the wait_window call and continue the execution of the code after it. HTH - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mixing Txinter and Pygame

p://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/contents.htm It unfortunately requires to know how to convert the tcl/tk syntax to Python/Tkinter syntax, but it is actually quite easy (mainly read "option=value" when the tcl/tk documentation says "-option value") HTH - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hello File.py

t. Feel free to note any horrors you see. Just one little thing: if you declare: def MenuOpen(parent): ... you'd better call it via: MenuOpen(root) and not: MenuOpen(parent=root) The 'parent=' stuff is unnecessary and may be confusing, since this syntax is often used only when you declare a function with keyword parameters like: def f(arg, **kwdParams): ... HTH - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pmw.Balloon under Windows

since there is no "real" window manager, but from the tk/Tkinter point of view, the result is the same: you can't "fake" a window manager event using event_generate. BTW, what are the versions of Python, tk and Pmw you're using? HTH a little... - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter option_add for menu radiobutton

black...the x.add_radiobutton() ones. Root.option_add("*Menu.Radiobutton*selectColor", "black")...nope Root.option_add("*Menu*selectColor", "black")...no change Strange... The last one works for me (as it should - see http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/menu.htm

Re: tkinter menu bar problem

ms with a check-mark, use the add_checkbutton or add_radiobutton methods on the parent menu. Their use is similar to the Checkbutton and Radiobutton classes. See [1] for all available options. [1] http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/menu.htm - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: tkinter menu bar problem

ms with a check-mark, use the add_checkbutton or add_radiobutton methods on the parent menu. Their use is similar to the Checkbutton and Radiobutton classes. See [1] for all available options. [1] http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/menu.htm - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyChecker messages

Silencer(signal, dummy): ... the warning will not be triggered. BTW, if your signal handler is just here to catch Ctrl-C, you'd better do a try/except on KeyboardInterrupt... HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter Puzzler

o the last command in the loop. To do what you want, change your code to: for entry in (...): UI.ShortBtn.menu.add_command( label=entry[0], command=lambda func=entry[1]: func(None) ) This way, the value for the func parameter is evaluated when the function is defined and not when

Re: Tkinter zoom box = maximize/unmaximize box/button

. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter zoom box

ot;regular" Tkinter widgets, so it must be built with some other one... Which one is it? A button, a menubutton, or what else? If you had some (simple) code showing the problem, that would also help a lot to understand what's going on... -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Sof

Re: cosmetic Tkinter question

hy do you use frames? If you have only check-buttons in them, you do not need them: from Tkinter import * root = Tk() for i in range(0, 101, 20): b = Checkbutton(root, text='Option %s' % i) b.pack(side=TOP, anchor=W) root.mainloop() HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Sof

Re: Multithreading tkinter question

just goes out of the mainloop; it doesn't destroy the widgets. To do that, you have to add an explicit root.destroy() after root.mainloop() -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

works quite smoothly. Can you describe what happens to you exactly? -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: spawn or fork

this instead of processes. See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-threading.html HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: spawn or fork

on Unices. What are you trying to do exactly? If you provide more explanations, we may provide a better help than the simplistic one above. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: simple GUI question

e for the dialogs too...) So if you really want to do that, the simplest way is definetely to avoid using the tkMessageBox module and to design your own dialogs. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie alert !

and as named parameters in the following ones? IMHO, since the parameters are positional in the function definition, you'd better pass them as such in the calls, i.e: rings(41, 0, -22, 'black') (Et sinon, il existe un newsgroup Python francophone (fr.comp.lang.python) sur le

Re: Python 2.4 and Tkinter

phase, but then you have to put it in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be able to import the module. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.4 and Tkinter

ded to Python 2.4, I assume you had a working installation of a previous Python version. So the tcl/tk libraries and header files must be there somewhere. Did you look at your Modules/Setup for the older Python? If Tkinter was working with this version, the setup for the _tkinter module should

Re: Problem with tkinter mainloop

ating the problem you have instead of just extracting a few lines of your whole code. This will help people who are willing to help to understand exactly what is going on. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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