Tkinter based libraries Runtime Library 3.0 and Gestalt Items 1.1

2009-11-07 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Hi Python commuters, It is my distinct pleasure to announce the availability of Runtime Library 3.0 and Gestalt Items 1.1 for Tkinter and Python. Both libraries are written in Tcl/Tk = version 8.4. Tkinter based Python Wrapper classes are part of the libraries, making them accesible from

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-13 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
lkcl schrieb: [snip] it's the exact same thing for SVG image file-format. i'm _definitely_ not convinced that SVG the image fileformat is The One True Way to design images - but i'm equally definitely convinced of the power of SVG manipulation libraries which allow for the creation SVG images

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 k...@codebykevin.com 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

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-07 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Terry Reedy schrieb: Ant I agree that the current tk situation is not completely satisfactory. In particular, the IO facilities are inadequate and have not, to my knowledge, changed in a decade. Image input formats are limited. There is no canvas output as an image. (Output of the canvase

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-08 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Terry Reedy schrieb: On 6/7/2010 5:25 PM, Arndt Roger Schneider wrote: Terry Reedy schrieb: ... Hah, You are ill-informed. How about 'under-informed'? That I readily admit ;-) tkpath 0.3 contains a surface element, which renders vector graphics elements in an off-screen tk image

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-11 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
rantingrick schrieb: On Jun 10, 9:38 pm, Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote: Also-- you're just starting to get wrong. http://docs.python.org/library/tix.html They don't -call- them the things you are, but between ComboBox, and the flexibility of HList and TList... it actually

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
rantingrick schrieb: On Dec 29, 6:41 pm, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: wxPython looks good but I don't see anyone developing support for things like smartphones. No wx is not the answer to our problems Rather: ... to *your* problem... Also, what do you think about frameworks

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages

2011-01-17 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Tim Harig schrieb: [snip] This isn't such a tragedy Erlang as it is for other managed VMs because Erlang/BEAM makes powerful usage of its VM for fault tolerance mechanisms. I don't know of any other VM that allows software upgrades on a running system. styx, the distributed operating system

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-18 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Terry Reedy schrieb: On 1/16/2011 11:20 PM, rantingrick wrote: Ok, try this... http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/screenshots/index.php http://www.sensi.org/~ak/pyslsk/pyslsk6.png http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm Ok, wxwidgets can look at least as good as tk.

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-18 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Octavian Rasnita schrieb: From: Arndt Roger Schneider arndt.ro...@addcom.de At least keep the disclaimer: Well, tosssing screenshots around doesn't prove wether a framwork/toolkit is good or not; It only displays the developers commitment to create a work of art. Overall impression

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-18 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
rantingrick schrieb: On Jan 18, 7:09 am, Arndt Roger Schneider arndt.ro...@addcom.de wrote: Summary wxWidgets: wxWidgets is large scale C++ library from the 20th century, solemnly dedicated toward desktop computers. wxWidgets originates from a time before templates were used in C++ and thus

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-18 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
rantingrick schrieb: On Jan 18, 12:25 pm, Arndt Roger Schneider arndt.ro...@addcom.de wrote: rantingrick schrieb: On Jan 18, 7:09 am, Arndt Roger Schneider arndt.ro...@addcom.de We DO need to consider the mobile market in this decision. Maybe it is time for us to actually get

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-18 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Adam Skutt schrieb: On Jan 18, 8:09 am, Arndt Roger Schneider arndt.ro...@addcom.de wrote: Back to rantingrick 21st century toolkit/framwork: Let's have a look at the numbers: Worlwide pc market are 300 Million pcs per year, this number includes desktops(2/3) and servers(1/3). Your gui app

Re: Screen readers for Tkinter (was Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-21 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Littlefield, Tyler schrieb: And of course, it should also offer support for Windows, since most of the computer users use Windows, especially those who need accessibility features. uh. no, and no. Plenty of those utilizing screen readers are using macs nowadays, as well as vinux or some

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-23 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
rantingrick schrieb: [snip] 1. You cannot define the terms--restrict your opponent-- and battle it yourselves. 2. Your specified directory browser is useless. --At least define that the directory browser must have constant complexity to work with volatile data over a network...

Re: Problem with giant font sizes in tkinter

2011-02-11 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Steven D'Aprano schrieb: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:48:47 +, Cousin Stanley wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: I have a tkinter application under Python 2.6 which is shows text in a giant font, about twenty(?) times larger than expected. The fonts are set using: titlefont =

Re: Displaying SVG in tkinter using cairo and rsvg

2011-02-16 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Martin P. Hellwig schrieb: Hi all, Information on using tkinter for displaying an svg image seems a bit low spread on the Internet. I recently played around with pygame and svg and realized, hold on this can be done with tk too. So I thought I post a little example for future generations :-)

Re: Displaying SVG in tkinter using cairo and rsvg

2011-02-16 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Martin P. Hellwig schrieb: On 02/16/11 09:04, Arndt Roger Schneider wrote: [snip] tkpath does not seem to come standard with Python's tk version when I looked into it a couple of years ago, but maybe it has now? tk canvas and tkpath share the same interface, the first tkpath was a plugin

Re: Customising Tk widgets

2010-09-21 Thread Arndt Roger Schneider
Peter schrieb: I am using Windoze, I suspect the appearance attributes I am asking about here are platform dependent? Using Tkinter, I would like to generate a Checkbutton that is filled in with a solid colour rather than a tick mark when selected. tk = Tk()