"Hazlett, Les" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > No doubt the widow vs. frame terminology is simpe
A Window is a GUI concept, it is the thing with the iconify/delete buttons and title bar. A Frame is literally a container for other widgets. Its conventional to create your Windows with a Frame as the top widget that contains all others. For a simple example look at the Grammer checkerr GUI in my tutorial Case Study. It has 3 frames in a single window. > Knowing that I am still confused by the window vs. > frame terminology, let me use the term "userform" Form is common terminology in Visual Basic and Delphi so thats not a bad term to use for a window within an application. It encompasses both application level windows and dialog boxes etc. > What I want is, no doubt, ordinary. I want to display > a "userform" asking the user to enter a folder path. OK, That would normally be done using the standard folder dialog. It uses the usual OS Windows style dialog with a tree widget and returns the folder name the user selects. Look here for more on the common dialogs: http://www-acc.kek.jp/WWW-ACC-exp/KEKB/control/Activity/Python/TkIntro/introduction/intro08.htm I'm amazed nobody has documented these in the standard library yet. They seem to be something of a secret in the Tkinter community! They andle the normal File-Open, File-SaveAs, Choose Folder type tasks needed in most GUI apps. > "Continue" button, I want to get the directory of what is inside > tthe selected folder and show a different "userform" with check > buttons for subordinate folders. Couldn't you use the normal Ctrl-Click/Shift click methods of selecting multiple folders using the standard dialogs? They can return a list of names if you ask them to... > second "userform", I want to do some (no need to explain) things to > the > selected folders and then show a third "userform" with summary > information about folder/file sizes and run time. Can I suggest a different scheme? One Form on startup, with a button, or menu option (or both) that opens a standard chooser dialog which returns a list of folders. That same form also has a display widget (Text maybe?) that gets filled with the result of your processing. This is the conventional style of GUI application and should seem normal to your users. > I would love to see a simple sample that uses multiple > "userforms". Try the IDLE editor. It has several popup dialogs etc. It is written in Tkinter. > I will keep reading about Tk. What reference would > you recommend. I have the Wesley Chun Core Python > Programming book. The best references are: Fred Lundh's tutorial and reference (but doesn't cover standard dialogs!) - linked from the Tkinter section on the Python web site. The link I posted above Grayson's book "Python & Tkinter Programming" For generic info about building GUIs you could skim my GUI topic too, its very thin but does cover the basics. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
