Byte wrote: > Thanks, this works. Now, since the tutorial I was using is clearly > rubbish, any better ones? For a (relative) newbie please. Also, how do > I code a GUI Hello World program? > > -- /usr/bin/byte >
Actually, that site is generally considered to be a pretty good place to start for tutorials. I think maybe you didn't go far enough through the "Tour of Some Common Widgets" section before you experienced problems (i.e., you didn't get to pack() or mainloop(), etc.). But I will agree with you that it is confusing when it says, following the top = Tk() line, "Notice that a new blank window has appeared", because as you noticed, nothing appears yet. My only guess is that this is either a mistake, or the tutorial is a little old, because I think Tkinter used to behave differently in the interactive prompt than it does now. Anyhow, I would stick with that site, but you might also try Fredrik's tutorial: http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/ It's a great little intro, but also a reference to the widgets, methods, etc. I pretty much learned everything so far from that site (admittedly I'm just as new as you are, but it's still a good site!) :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
