Re: Tkinter docs?

2023-05-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-05-26, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote: > Grant, I may well buy one of the books you suggested. I haven't had look at either of the newer books, but I got a lot of good out of the Grayson book (20 years ago). I also had a Tcl/Tk book that I found useful even when usng tkinter, but

Re: Tkinter docs?

2023-05-30 Thread Rob Cliffe via Python-list
Thanks to everyone who replied.  All replies were constructive, none were telling me to stop belly-aching. I forgot/omitted to state that it was I who wrote the original project (in a completely different language), making the task of re-writing it much less formidable.  And meaning that I am

Re: Tkinter docs?

2023-05-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 24May2023 02:18, Rob Cliffe wrote:     There doesn't seem to be any decent documentation for it anywhere. Already mentioned in the replies, I use this: https://tkdocs.com/shipman/index.html quite a lot. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter docs?

2023-05-24 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 24.05.23 um 03:18 schrieb Rob Cliffe: I have recently started converting a large project to tkinter, starting with zero knowledge of tkinter.  (You are free to think: BAD IDEA. ) Welcome to the awesome world of GUI development.     I was writing a subclass of the Checkbutton class

Re: Tkinter docs?

2023-05-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 13:11, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote: > > I have recently started converting a large project to tkinter, starting > with zero knowledge of tkinter. (You are free to think: BAD IDEA. ) > I am well aware that adopting a new tool always involves a learning > curve, and

Re: Tkinter docs?

2023-05-23 Thread aapost
On 5/23/23 21:18, Rob Cliffe wrote: Comments, anyone? Better yet (holds breath ...) can anyone point me towards some decent tkinter documentation? The variables are slightly more integrated when using tcl/tk directly, python has to have the object so you can track/use them easier. And the

Re: Tkinter docs?

2023-05-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-05-24, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote: > I have recently started converting a large project to tkinter, starting > with zero knowledge of tkinter.  (You are free to think: BAD IDEA. ) Well, you could be translating them to Tcl/Tk -- so on the scale of bad ideas, your's barely