Re: GUI in python

2006-03-30 Thread peter . mosley
See this thread http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/989b957f244d48e0/429378d911ba4357?hl=en#429378d911ba4357 Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Write a GUI for a python script?

2006-03-03 Thread peter . mosley
Hi I, too, am a python newbie and have wrestled with GUI programming. I think I am winning, but its been a struggle. >From what I have gleaned, there are three and a half options. The half is easygui - see http://www.ferg.org/easygui - which allows you to place pop up dialogues in procedural co

Re: Unable to get PIL to load jpeg images

2006-02-17 Thread peter . mosley
> Can you share the name of the library on the Fedora distro? file:///media/cdrecorder/Fedora/RPMS/libjpeg-devel-6b-33.i386.rpm On disc 3 in my copy, but that probably doesn't mean anything! Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unable to get PIL to load jpeg images

2006-02-09 Thread peter . mosley
Thanks for that tip Following a dialogue in that discussion group it is now working. The problem was that I didn't have the right jpeg library installed (although what I had was enough to show jpegs in gThumb, GIMP and the Gnome and KDE desktops so I don't understand why it wasn't). I had to als

Re: Unable to get PIL to load jpeg images

2006-02-07 Thread peter . mosley
Someone out there must surely know - please! Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Unable to get PIL to load jpeg images

2006-02-06 Thread peter . mosley
Hello again I'm still wrestling with Python / Tkinter / PIL. I have almost got it to work - on a Fedora Core 1 system I can now display images in a Tkinter window. But I also run a Fedora Core 3 system, and when I tried the same procedures I get the following errors:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] jpgTest]

Re: Unable to install Python Imaging Library

2005-12-20 Thread peter . mosley
Thanks for that reply. I hadn't tried installing the Tcl and Tk development libraries - because I had no idea these that these were necessary (or that they even existed!). My first attempt to do so was a total failure, as I downloaded the RPM files from http://rpmfind.net, but immediately entered

Unable to install Python Imaging Library

2005-12-18 Thread peter . mosley
A few weeks ago I asked for advice about which GUI toolkit I should learn, and receved several helpful answers. In the end I went with Tkinter. This was because a) it was already installed on the machines I am most likley to use, b) it is cross platform, and c) it was not as complex as PyGtk - wh

Re: How to get started in GUI Programming?

2005-11-28 Thread peter . mosley
A big thank you to all who responded. There are too many to reply individually, but to summarise ... Thomas Güttler gave a link to an example program, editMetadata.py which uses yes no dialogs and scaled images. I've not yet tried to learn from this, but looking at the code it seems to provide e

How to get started in GUI Programming?

2005-11-25 Thread peter . mosley
I am trying to learn GUI programming in Python, but have to confess I am finding it difficult. I am not an experienced programmer - just someone who from time to time writes small programs for my use. Over the years I have moved from GWBASIC to QBASIC to Visual Basic, and now trying to move acros