Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-05-31 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Pradeep B schrieb: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: Tkinter doesn't wrap native printing API's. There are a few extensions that do it, but they are platform specific and not complete. The usual ways of printing are like this: 1. If you're outputting data from the text

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-05-31 Thread Pradeep B
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > Tkinter doesn't wrap native printing API's. There are a few extensions that > do it, but they are platform specific and not complete. > > The usual ways of printing are like this: > > 1. If you're outputting data from the text widget, write t

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-05-29 Thread Kevin Walzer
Is printing from GUI still a 'not-happening' thing with Tkinter ? I have just started learning it. Tkinter doesn't wrap native printing API's. There are a few extensions that do it, but they are platform specific and not complete. The usual ways of printing are like this: 1. If you're outp

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-05-29 Thread Pradeep B
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: > Peter wrote: >> >> On Jan 15, 9:12 am, Kevin Walzer wrote: On Jan 15, 6:24 am, Mark Roseman  wrote: > >  Peter  wrote: >> >> Besides, the book is mainly about using Python with Tkinter - and >> Tkinter hasn't cha

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-01-21 Thread Ethan Furman
Peter wrote: On Jan 15, 9:12 am, Kevin Walzer wrote: On Jan 15, 6:24 am, Mark Roseman wrote: Peter wrote: Besides, the book is mainly about using Python with Tkinter - and Tkinter hasn't changed that much since 2000, so I believe it is just as relevant today as it was back then. I'd sa

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-01-21 Thread Peter
On Jan 15, 9:12 am, Kevin Walzer wrote: > On 1/14/10 3:39 PM, Peter wrote: > > > > > > > On Jan 15, 6:24 am, Mark Roseman  wrote: > >>   Peter  wrote: > >>> Besides, the book is mainly about using Python with Tkinter - and > >>> Tkinter hasn't changed that much since 2000, so I believe it is just

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-01-14 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/14/10 3:39 PM, Peter wrote: On Jan 15, 6:24 am, Mark Roseman wrote: Peter wrote: Besides, the book is mainly about using Python with Tkinter - and Tkinter hasn't changed that much since 2000, so I believe it is just as relevant today as it was back then. I'd say that Tkinter has subs

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-01-14 Thread Peter
On Jan 15, 6:24 am, Mark Roseman wrote: >  Peter wrote: > > Besides, the book is mainly about using Python with Tkinter - and > > Tkinter hasn't changed that much since 2000, so I believe it is just > > as relevant today as it was back then. > > I'd say that Tkinter has substantially changed - wi

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Roseman
Peter wrote: > Besides, the book is mainly about using Python with Tkinter - and > Tkinter hasn't changed that much since 2000, so I believe it is just > as relevant today as it was back then. I'd say that Tkinter has substantially changed - with the introduction of the 'ttk' themed widgets.

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-01-13 Thread Lord Eldritch
Peter wrote: > provides in his book (I used it once for my first GUI, but these days > use Pmw more for my GUIs). > Maybe I'm wrong, but for me, it is THE Tkinter reference. I would probably choose another organization of the book, but I am not aware of a better, more complete treatise about. E

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-01-13 Thread Peter
On Jan 13, 11:19 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > Greetings! > > I am hoping to acquire a book on Python and Tkinter, and found this one. >   However, it was published in 2000 for Python 1.52... > > Can somebody who has this book comment its continued relevance?  Is it > still useful for Python 2.5 and T