gregarican wrote: > Paul Watson wrote: > > >>Does pwm run well on Python 2.4? The last release appears to be in >>2003. The Manning discussion forum is dead. >> >>Is there a better path to learning and producing tkInter apps? >> >> >>Has there been any discussion of wxPython becoming part of the base >>Python distro? A requirement here is to not require download/install of >>anything other than the Python release. > > > I can't vouch for Python 2.4, but I used the PMW library pretty > extensively for an app that is based on Python 2.3. Tkinker itself > offers most of the basic widgets that any Tk implementation does, and > there's an online guide (can't recall the URL right now) to Tkinter > that is great for an introduction tutorial. PMW is an add-on to Tkinter > that is useful if there are specific widgets that you need that basic > Tkinter doesn't provide and you don't feel like creating them from > scratch. Just because it doesn't have a new release in the past couple > of years doesn't mean that it's truly a dead project. Perhaps it's > stabilized and there haven't been overwhelming requests for adding any > new items to it. Using PMW won't help you learn Tkinter any quicker in > any event. Just icing on the cake :-)
Many thanks for your reply. I was setting out to make use of the Manning book by Grayson. Perhaps I should just use online tutorial and such for learning plain-old tk first. However, I have heard good things about the book. Just trying to use what was already at hand. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
