On Jun 7, 12:01 pm, "Eric Brunel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, what are you trying to do here? Will your application run on a > "normal" desktop computer? Or will it run on special devices such as > vending machines or similar?
You got it: it's a special device. > in the second case, you shouldn't rely on an existing window manager, and > try to design your GUI so that doing things "manually" will be easier. For > example, instead of displaying a dialog for a message, maybe you should > just reserve a screen zone to display the message, optionally displaying > it in a special color or making it blink so that the user can't miss it. > You may also consider using the "place" layout method to display things at > random coordinates in your application window. For example: You are right and I think it's not a big deal for simple popup messages. But when I need tkFileDialog.askdirectory I think things get harder. I would prefer not have to reimplement the whole stuff from scratch... Ciao. Marco. P.S. BTW I already owe you a pizza for your help. Do you think you can be at http://www.pycon.it this weekend? :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
