On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > rantingrick wrote: > >> Unlike most GUI libraries the Tkinter developers thought is would >> "just wonderful" if the root GUI window just sprang into existence if >> the programmer "somehow" forgot to create one. > > IMO the real problem here is the existence of a privileged > "root" window at all. No GUI platform I know of has any > such concept (except for a "desktop" window that represents > the whole screen, which is not the same thing). All top-level > windows should have equal status.
I don't know Tkinter, but from the look of the example code, he's creating a Label that's not attached to a window, and then packing it into nothing. The toolkit kindly creates him a window. Is that the "root GUI window" that he means? A basic top-level window? Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
