Paul Watson wrote: > 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.
If you want to write full-featured GUI apps with Tkinter, Grayson is your best bet. Lundh's tutorial is excellent as a reference, but, last I checked, was not as extensive as Grayson in terms of teaching new users. Also, PMW is relatively heavy-weight, so make sure the Python standard library doesn't already do what you want before including PMW (e.g. ScrolledText, etc.). James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
