On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Bob Greschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a program that maintains a simple, on-the-fly database using a > dictionary. The user can see what is going on with it by brining up a > toplevel with a Text() widget. Checkbuttons and Entry fields are used to > display the state of the items in the database (see picture). > > www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/unlinked/images/showdb.tiff > > The EN, AE, BR, etc. "flags" are the Checkbuttons and to the right of each > TP, TO and ST label is an Entry field. Each line is one seismic recording > instrument which this program talks to. From this 'form' the user can > manually make changes to the state of each instrument by just clicking the > flags or entering stuff in the fields. The problem is when there are > hundreds of instruments it starts to take a long time to open the form and > fill it all in, scroll the form, and close the form and destroy all of those > widgets. Is there a faster way?
What if you limit the amount of instruments shown at a time ? Does it bring any advantage to show them all ? Also, you could try running that app under tk 8.5, it will require no changes and it is said to be 10% faster but I have never tested it so maybe you can test this. > Would putting all of this on a Canvas be > faster? I'd try it, but it would take a bit of messing just to do the > experiment -- only to find out it's not faster, plus I'm not looking forward > to counting pixels to get everything to line up. This late-summer we will > have an experiment with a few thousand instruments, so I'm lookin' for a > solution. :) > > Thanks! > > Bob > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
