On 16/06/2021 21:45, Rich Shepard wrote: > The two applications I'm building are both database applications. If > tksheet() is not the most appropriate widget to display database tables what > alternative would be better?
I've not used tksheet but it sounds like it might be worth investigating. There is a grid in Tix but its quite hard to use and Tix is now deprecated. It was also a bit unreliable when used from Python (that's euphemistic for "I couldn't get it to work!" :-) But there is nothing I know of for Tkinter that provides views of database tables in the way that Delphi or VB or C# do, for example. You have to extract the data using SQL and populate the table and manage all changes (of both view and data) yourself. A good grid component would be a huge boon for tkinter, its one of the most commonly used widgets in VB/Delphi etc A DB-API linked grid would be the height of luxury... If you do a lot of that kind of desktop apps then you could look at Dabo which is built on wxPython but has links to databases. Unfortunately it looks like work ground to a halt about 5 years ago. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
