In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dudeja, Rajat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > So, now I've finally started using Eclipse and PyDev as an IDE for my > GUI Application. I just wrote some sample programs as an hands on. > > Now I would like to take up Tkinter. I'm using Active State Python > version 2.5 and found that there is not Tkinter and Tk module in it. > > To use Tkinter do I actually require Tk installed on my machine? Please > suggest and where can I find both these modules? > > Also, please direct me to a good and short document on using Tkinter or > Tk in Python. What operating system? For MacOS X this should not happen because Tcl/Tk is already available. But the best Python for MacOS X is the binary installer from python.org and the best Tcl/Tk is ActiveState version 8.4.19 (the Tcl/Tk that comes with MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5 is rather old and buggy). For Windows: the standard python.org binary Python includes its own Tcl/Tk. So the simplest solution is to use that. I know nothing about ActiveState's Python for Windows but it is possible that it requires ActiveState Tcl/Tk to use Tkinter. For unix: I'm not sure about ActiveState and unix. But the standard package installer that comes with your unix should offer tcl/tk, python and _tkinter (possibly as 3 separate packages, possibly not) and at least tcl/tk and python should be installed by default. In general ActiveState puts out a very nice Tcl/Tk installer that includes many useful extra packages. But I've never seen the point to ActiveState's Python installer. When I last tried it, their Python was missing readline and did not add any useful packages to the standard python.org version. For info on Tkinter: <http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter> -- Russell P.S. if you do install Tcl/Tk to use with Tkinter, please use 8.4.x, NOT 8.5. Python 2.5.x is not fully compatible with Tcl/Tk 8.5. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
