Re: Tkinter or Python issue?

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:30:33 -0400, Ron Provost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using python 2.4.2 on Win XP Pro. I'm trying to understand a behavior > I'm seeing in some Tkinter code I have. I've reduced my question to a small > piece of code: > > > #BEGIN CODE > ###

Re: Set an environment variable

On 20 Oct 2005 01:58:44 -0700, the_crazy88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just use > os.system("export PYTHONPATH = %s" %("your_pythonpath")) ... except it won't work: os.system will execute the command in a new process, so the environment variable change will only be visible in *this* process. S

Re: Set an environment variable

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:13:32 -, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-10-21, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> My point: the OP wanted to know how to export an environment >>> variable to a child process. Either of the lines of

Re: How to write an API for a Python application?

On 16 Nov 2005 06:18:05 -0800, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Kshepitzki wrote: >> I would like to create an API for a piece of Python code. The API is for use >> by non Python code. >> It should support interaction in both directions, both accessing functions >> on the API and the

Re: How to write an API for a Python application?

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:43:33 -0500, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Eric Brunel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On 16 Nov 2005 06:18:05 -0800, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> One technology that I used many years ago with Python,

Re: cosmetic Tkinter question

hy do you use frames? If you have only check-buttons in them, you do not need them: from Tkinter import * root = Tk() for i in range(0, 101, 20): b = Checkbutton(root, text='Option %s' % i) b.pack(side=TOP, anchor=W) root.mainloop() HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Sof

Re: Tkinter zoom box

ot;regular" Tkinter widgets, so it must be built with some other one... Which one is it? A button, a menubutton, or what else? If you had some (simple) code showing the problem, that would also help a lot to understand what's going on... -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Sof

Re: Tkinter zoom box = maximize/unmaximize box/button

. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter Puzzler

o the last command in the loop. To do what you want, change your code to: for entry in (...): UI.ShortBtn.menu.add_command( label=entry[0], command=lambda func=entry[1]: func(None) ) This way, the value for the func parameter is evaluated when the function is defined and not when

Re: PyChecker messages

Silencer(signal, dummy): ... the warning will not be triggered. BTW, if your signal handler is just here to catch Ctrl-C, you'd better do a try/except on KeyboardInterrupt... HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python 2.1 / 2.3: xreadlines not working with codecs.open

Hi all, I just found a problem in the xreadlines method/module when used with codecs.open: the codec specified in the open does not seem to be taken into account by xreadlines which also returns byte-strings instead of unicode strings. For example, if a file foo.txt contains some text encoded

Re: Frame widget (title and geometry)

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:21:01 -0400, Shankar Iyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am still new to Python and Tkinter, so I apologize in advance if I do not > word my question optimally. I am trying to use a frame widget as the parent > for other widgets. There is a cla

Re: tkinter radiobutton

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:34:50 GMT, William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am placing radiobuttons in a 4 X 4 matrix (using loops) and keep > references to them in a 2 dimensional list ( rBtns[r][c] ). It works > fine, and I can even make it so only one button per column can be > selected, by

Re: Python 2.1 / 2.3: xreadlines not working with codecs.open

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:23:34 +0200, Eric Brunel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just found a problem in the xreadlines method/module when used with > codecs.open: the codec specified in the open does not seem to be taken into > account by xreadlines which also

Re: custom Tkinter ListBox selectMode

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:19:20 -0400, Ron Provost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've written a simple GUI which contains a listbox to hold some information. > I've found that the click-selection schemes provided by Tkinter are > insufficient for my needs. Essentiall I need to impletement a

Re: Tkinter Checkbutton initialization problem

On 03 Jul 2005 02:32:21 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Python 2.4, Windows XP. If I say: > > f = Frame() > f.grid() > v = IntVar() > c = Checkbutton(f, text='hi there', variable=v) > c.grid() > f.mainloop() > > then the checkbutton should initially d

Re: Tkinter grid layout

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:44:55 +0100, Richard Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got a tree control in Tkinter (using the ESRF Tree module) but I > can't get it to layout how I want it. > > I'd like to have it so that it streches north/south (anchored to the top > and bottom), is

Re: Tkinter grid layout

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:32:42 GMT, William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excuse me for intruding, but I followed examples and ended up with a > similar architecture: > > from Tkinter import * > class MyMain(Frame): > def __init__(self, master): > self.root = mast

Re: win32ui CreatePrintDialog

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:08:35 -0400, Chris Lambacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This question has come up a few times on the list with no one giving a public > answer. How do you use CreatePrintDialog from win32ui? > > About a year ago someone posted that: > dlg = win32ui.CreatePrintDial

Re: main window in tkinter app

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:57:51 GMT, William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A short while ago someone posted that(unlike the examples) you should > use Tk as the base for your main window in tkinter apps, not Frame. Thus : > >class MyMain(Frame): >def __init__(self, master): >

Re: Clearing a Text Widget

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:42:52 -0400, Kane Bonnette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kane Bonnette wrote: >> Does anyone know how the clear the text from a Tkinter Text Widget? The >> delete(0, END) trick that works for Entry widgets doesn't work for Text >> >> I get "0 is an invalid index" when i try t

Re: Problem (or even bug?) with Tkinter

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:53:20 +0100, Matt Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a strange one in Tkinter that has me stumped: > (I'm running python 2.4 on Suse Linux 9.3 64bit) > > I'm trying to make a set of Entry widgets with Label widgets to the left > of each one, using the grid layout. I

Re: a question about tkinter StringVars()

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:07:27 GMT, William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Working with tkinter, I have a createWidgets() method in a class. > Within createWidgets() I create several StringVars() and > assign them to the textvariable option of several widgets. > Effectively my code structure is:

Re: tkraise oddity

On 24 Aug 2005 06:57:07 -0700, twd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm seeing some new and unexpected behaviour with tkinter + python2.4, > in a gnome+linux environment. The code below used to work (and > continues to work under windows). The intended behaviour is that a > window is created the the f

Re: file access dialog

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:52:06 GMT, Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a tool in Python to which I want to add a small GUI. The tools > currently runs everywhere PySerial is supported. I need a file-access > dialog. What is the preffered way to to this? Is there a >

Re: TKinter, Entry objects and dynamic naming

On 13 Sep 2005 08:51:47 +0100, Ian Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am hoping someone may be able to help. > > I am using Python and TKinter to create a GUI program that will > eventually create an XML file for a project I am working on. Now, the XML > file contents changes depending on the

Re: Tkinter add_cascade option_add

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:31:31 -0600, Bob Greschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Root.option_add("*?*font", "Helvetica 12 bold") > > Want to get rid of the "font =": > Widget.add_cascade(label = "File", menu = Fi, font = "Helvetica 12 bold") > > Does anyone know what ? should be to control th

Re: Tkinter add_cascade option_add

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:58:25 -0600, Bob Greschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Eric Brunel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:31:31 -0600, Bob Greschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>

Re: tkinter menu bar problem

ms with a check-mark, use the add_checkbutton or add_radiobutton methods on the parent menu. Their use is similar to the Checkbutton and Radiobutton classes. See [1] for all available options. [1] http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/menu.htm - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: tkinter menu bar problem

ms with a check-mark, use the add_checkbutton or add_radiobutton methods on the parent menu. Their use is similar to the Checkbutton and Radiobutton classes. See [1] for all available options. [1] http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/menu.htm - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter option_add for menu radiobutton

black...the x.add_radiobutton() ones. Root.option_add("*Menu.Radiobutton*selectColor", "black")...nope Root.option_add("*Menu*selectColor", "black")...no change Strange... The last one works for me (as it should - see http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/menu.htm

Re: Pmw.Balloon under Windows

since there is no "real" window manager, but from the tk/Tkinter point of view, the result is the same: you can't "fake" a window manager event using event_generate. BTW, what are the versions of Python, tk and Pmw you're using? HTH a little... - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hello File.py

t. Feel free to note any horrors you see. Just one little thing: if you declare: def MenuOpen(parent): ... you'd better call it via: MenuOpen(root) and not: MenuOpen(parent=root) The 'parent=' stuff is unnecessary and may be confusing, since this syntax is often used only when you declare a function with keyword parameters like: def f(arg, **kwdParams): ... HTH - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mixing Txinter and Pygame

p://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/contents.htm It unfortunately requires to know how to convert the tcl/tk syntax to Python/Tkinter syntax, but it is actually quite easy (mainly read "option=value" when the tcl/tk documentation says "-option value") HTH - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 'modal dialogs' with Tkinter

l" or whatever buttons you want to use should then call dlg.destroy(). This will terminate the wait_window call and continue the execution of the code after it. HTH - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mixing Txinter and Pygame

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:23:09 +1300, Tim Knauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] (When I'm starting on a language feature, though, I usually find I learn a lot more from worked examples than from straight command information. You may be interested in Tkinter best kept secret: the example scripts in

Re: Fonts

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:00:41 -0600, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm cpmpletely lost on fonts. I'm using Tkinter I do medarial = '-*-Arial-Bold-*-*--24-*-*-*-ISO8859-1" or Courier or Fixed in various sizes. Works great on my RH 7.2 But a small embedded system Im working on, nothing seems to work

Re: Polling selections from a listbox (Tkinter)

On 26 Feb 2005 03:48:16 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Obviously when this starts up this is going to show selection #0 inside the label box. How do I make sure that whatever is arbitrarily selected ends up in the label box as this gui runs? I tried doing a bind: self.listbo

Re: scrollbar dependencies

On 3 Mar 2005 01:06:48 -0800, Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. I am using Tkinter and Pmw. I would like to build 2 canvases/frames that are scrollable together horizontally, and independently vertically (so, the vertical scrollbars should not be moved by the horizontal one). So I built a Pm

Re: scrollbar dependencies

On 3 Mar 2005 02:38:59 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pardon a question I should already know the answer to, but what are the *args in the: def xscrollboth(*args): c1.xview(*args) c2.xview(*args) Thanks, Harlin If your question is about the syntax, it's just the way of passin

Re: Setting default option values for Tkinter widgets

On 3 Mar 2005 03:02:48 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are certain options for Tkinter widgets that have default values that I don't much care for (borderwidth, font come to mind) and continuously change when I'm building interfaces. With a bit of tweaking I have been able to

Re: Tkinter Bitmap Newbie question

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:57 GMT, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wim Goffin: But just to make sure I'm on the right track, - Is XBM the best way to for bitmaps? The ones I saw so far are all black and white. Do they also exist in color? XPM is the version of XBM with colour. - Is XBM al

Re: (Tkinter) Adding delay to PopUpMsg

On 17 Mar 2005 23:40:20 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am working on making something called a PopMsg widget which is actually identical to a Balloon widget from Pmw. Here is the code: ---code--- from Tkinter import * import time class PopMsg: def showmsg(self, event):

Re: Problem with tkinter mainloop

ating the problem you have instead of just extracting a few lines of your whole code. This will help people who are willing to help to understand exactly what is going on. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.4 and Tkinter

ded to Python 2.4, I assume you had a working installation of a previous Python version. So the tcl/tk libraries and header files must be there somewhere. Did you look at your Modules/Setup for the older Python? If Tkinter was working with this version, the setup for the _tkinter module should

Re: Python 2.4 and Tkinter

phase, but then you have to put it in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be able to import the module. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie alert !

and as named parameters in the following ones? IMHO, since the parameters are positional in the function definition, you'd better pass them as such in the calls, i.e: rings(41, 0, -22, 'black') (Et sinon, il existe un newsgroup Python francophone (fr.comp.lang.python) sur le

Re: simple GUI question

e for the dialogs too...) So if you really want to do that, the simplest way is definetely to avoid using the tkMessageBox module and to design your own dialogs. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: spawn or fork

on Unices. What are you trying to do exactly? If you provide more explanations, we may provide a better help than the simplistic one above. HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: spawn or fork

this instead of processes. See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-threading.html HTH -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

works quite smoothly. Can you describe what happens to you exactly? -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Multithreading tkinter question

just goes out of the mainloop; it doesn't destroy the widgets. To do that, you have to add an explicit root.destroy() after root.mainloop() -- - Eric Brunel - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: scrollbar dependencies

On 24 Mar 2005 03:24:34 -0800, Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Next mystery : a picture drawn in the canvas c1 is scrollable. a picture-containing canvas "grided" in the canvas c1 is not. so why ??? Marion --- [snip] #---

Re: How to ensure Maximize button shows in Linux/Unix (Tkinter)

On 26 Mar 2005 08:19:07 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Diez, Thanks for the quick reply. I am running this under KDE. I actually haven't tried doing so under any other wm for the moment. Any ideas how to get it to show in KDE? This is a tk bug; see: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/i

Re: tkinter destroy()

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:37:10 GMT, max(01)* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi people. when i create a widget, such as a toplevel window, and then i destroy it, how can i test that it has been destroyed? the problem is that even after it has been destroyed, the instance still exists and has a tkinter nam

Re: problem with tkinter

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:32:59 +0200, Pierre Quentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Instead of indexing self.lab by strings, you can index them by the attributes themselves : self.lab[self.i], and change line 23 into for var in (self.s, self,i) I really think this is asking for trouble: I suppose t

Re: Things you shouldn't do

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:02:57 GMT, Andrew Dalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve wrote: [an anecdote on distinguishing l1 and 11] What are some of other people's favourite tips for avoiding bugs in the first place, as opposed to finding them once you know they are there? There's a good book on this

Re: Simple Python + Tk text editor

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:41:26 +0100, Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] And for my project (integration of Python and TeX) there is most unlikely to be a better one. Do you know the (apparently dead) project named e:doc? You can find it here: http://members.nextra.at/hfbuch/edoc/ It's a

Re: Tkinter Event Types

On 18 Apr 2005 13:48:50 -0700, codecraig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, When I do something like. s = Scale(master) s.bind("", callback) def callback(self, event): print event.type I see "7" printed out. Where are these constants defined for various event types? Basically i want to do somet

Re: New to Tkinter...

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:35:03 -0400, Peter G Carswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good Morning. I am new to Tkinter. I have been testing the installation of Tkinter through the python web site. The first two test steps give no errors, 'import _tkinter' and 'import Tkinter'. However, the third step, '

Re: Getting the sender widget's name in function (Tkinter)

On 26 Apr 2005 13:37:29 -0700, infidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: from Tkinter import Tk, Button def say_hello(event): print 'hello!' print event.widget['text'] root = Tk() button1 = Button(root, text='Button 1') button1.bind('', say_hello) button1.pack() button2 = Button(root, text='Button

Re: tkinter text width

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:01:46 -0700, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, I would like for a tkinter text widget to be aware of how big the frame that contains it is, then I would like for it to reset its width to the appropriate number of characters when this frame changes size. Errr.

Re: tkinter text width

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:52:21 -0700, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] How might I query the size of a fixed-width font in pixles? It appears that the width of the font in points does not correlate with its width in pixels based on some simple expriments I have done. This is the case on

Re: tkinter text width

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:14:02 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:36:18 +0200, "Eric Brunel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: This is the case on all platforms, but far more sensible on Windows: Windows attem

Re: Set initial size in TKinter

In article , Gabor Urban wrote: > Hi, > > I am quite newbie with Tkinter and I could not find the way to set the > size of the application. (I could find the method to make it > resizeable, though :-)) ) Any ideas, suggestions or links to > references are wellcome. Usually, the best way is to u

Re: Changing fill in tkinter

On 13 Jan 2006 01:43:42 -0800, venk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know how to change the fill of things we put in a > tkinter's canvas. for example, if i create a rectangle and i would want > to change the fill of the rectangle once it is clicked... can we do > that? Not

Re: Problems with Tkinter and threads

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:58:08 +0200, Claus Tondering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Tkinter application has to receive events from a TCP connection. I > have chosen to do this in the following manner: > > The TCP communication takes place in a separate thread. When I receive > data, I generate a

Re: Problems with Tkinter and threads

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:20:46 +0200, Claus Tondering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Brunel wrote: >> This is where the problem is: if you do just a event_generate without >> specifying the 'when' option, the binding is fired immediately in the >> curren

Re: tkinter wm_delete_window

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:16:04 +0200, yvesd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello i want to intercept tkinter python system events like > wm_delete_window > and if possible for any window, but the newest code I've produced give > me > an error : > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Document

Re: Tkinter pack Problem

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:46:39 +0200, H J van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am struggling to get the pack method to do what I intend. > I am trying to display user input in a seperate window, along with > a little description of the field, something like this: > > Curr

Re: Strange Tkinter Grid behaviour Problem

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:14:51 +0200, H J van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Still struggling with my GUI exercise - > > I have the following lines of code in a routine that is bound at > to > an instance of Entry : > > self.disp.Amount_des = Label(self.disp, text = self.di

Re: why the method get() of python Queue is hang on there?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:10:13 +0200, zxo102 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I am using Queue from python2.4. Here is what happen to me: > > import Queue > b = Queue.Queue(0) > b.put() > b.get() # this is ok, it pops out > b.get() # this one does not return anything and is hang on

Re: tkinter prob

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:50:29 +0200, JyotiC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have tried it out but it's not working. > this is the code > > from Tkinter import * > > class abc: > def __init__(self,parent): > #make container myparent > self.myparent=parent > self.myparent.g

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:33:55 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I get the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Controller/lib> python display.py > UpdateStringProc should not be invoked for type font > Aborted > > and I am back at the bash prompt - this is most frustrat

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:02:56 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Eric Brunel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know the problem happens sometimes on one of my Tkinter applications, >> but I never succeeded in reproducing it systematical

Re: Long Tkinter Menu

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:33:54 +0200, Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if this is because of Tkinter (ie Tk) itself or the > Windows default way of handling things, but when I create a very long > menu (my test is shown below), the way it displays is rather sucky; the > menu stretche

Re: Tkinter: Making a window disappear

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:08:39 +0200, Claus Tondering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just solved the problem myself: > > I wrote: >> self.destroy() > > Writing "self.master.destroy()" instead does the trick. As an alternative (which is better IMHO), you may consider specializing Top

Re: Tkinter: populating Mac Help menu?

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:29:46 +0200, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > So given x (a string), how does one create a widget whose name is > '%s.help' > % x ? This is a can of corn in Tk, but nothing comes to mind looking at > the > Tkinter source code. Use the 'name' keyword

Re: Tkinter question

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:48:51 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorin Schwimmer wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible to have a widget id while it is created? > Something like this: > > Button(root, text='...', command= lambda v=: fn(v)).grid() > > and then the function: > > d

Re: python GUIs comparison (want)

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:04:57 +0200, Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> And no modern layout manager available. Only those old school >>> left/right/up/down pack and anchors are available. >> huh? when did you last look at Tk? 1994? > Yesterday. In fact, I could find no mention at all

Re: Problem getting a file pathname with tkFileDialog

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:01:08 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am working on a school project that requires me to get the path of a > filename for future treatment. > I've tried getting a file with tkFileDialog.askopenfile. > > > > import t

Re: Problem getting a file pathname with tkFileDialog

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:59:38 +0100, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sefyroth wrote: >> Thanks, >> but I get this error when I try this. >> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in >> position 12: ordinal not in range(128) >> I had encountered it with the

Re: How to choose the right GUI toolkit ?

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:51:31 +0100, Dan Lenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One other thing I'm wondering: how exactly does Tkinter work? Is the > whole Tk toolkit bound up as library of low-level C code, or does > Tkinter sit on top of a Tcl interpreter? The latter: there is a tiny C layer allo

Re: How to choose the right GUI toolkit ?

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:01:51 +0100, Dan Lenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tk 8.4 appears to use native Win32 widgets under Cygwin and native > WinXP. It seems to depend on the widget type, and on what you call native... For example, tk menus are definitely the native ones; tk scrollbars are th

Re: CORBA: Fnorb Problems

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:16:37 +0100, rodmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Fnorb and everything seems to have gone ok. However I > keep getting the error message below. This is despite the fact that the > MS CL c++ preprocessor seems to be in PATH. I can type "cl" and > alth

Re: CORBA: Fnorb Problems

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:13:42 +0100, rodmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Traceback (most recent call last): >> > File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\Fnorb\script\cpp.py", line 53, >> in >> > -toplevel- >> > raise "No C/C++ pre-processor found in your PATH!" >> > No C/C++ pre-proces

Re: Tkinter: Strange behavior using place() and changing cursors

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:45:52 +0100, Mudcat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is I need the ability to change it dynamically. I don't > want the cursor to be the double_arrow the whole time the mouse hovers > inside that frame. It's supposed to be a resize arrow when the mouse is > on the fra

Re: How to use tk.call ?

On 29 May 2006 21:13:07 -0700, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> self.table.bind("",self.table.tk.call(self.table._w,'yview','scroll',-5,'units') > >> I haven't used Table, but are you sure that what you are calling >> "self.table" here actually has mouse focus? > >> James > > Yup, I click on the tab

Re: How to use tk.call ?

On 30 May 2006 05:51:04 -0700, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric, > > Thanks, your tip did the trick... Is there someplace where tk.call is > discussed? I don't think so. I personnally never find any documentation on it. But there is not much to say: you can just pass regular tcl commands throu

Function mistaken for a method

Hi all, I just stepped on a thing that I can't explain. Here is some code showing the problem: - class C: f = None def __init__(self): if self.f is not None: self.x = self.f(0) else: self.x = 0 class C1(C): f = int class C2(C): f

Re: Function mistaken for a method

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:34:53 +0200, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Brunel wrote: > >> My actual question is: why does it work in one case and not in the >> other? >> As I see it, int is just a function with one parameter, and the lambda >>

Re: Function mistaken for a method

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:07:26 +0200, bruno at modulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do yourself a favour : use new-style classes. > class C(object) I would if I could: I'm stuck with Python 2.1 for the moment (I should have mentionned it; sorry for that). [snip] >> Basically, I want an optional

Re: GUI Program Error

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:38:39 GMT, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > 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

Re: Making a Label that looks the same as a button.

On 13 Jun 2006 06:14:03 -0700, Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Button object that gets replaced by a Label when clicked. > > Button(buttonsframe,text=' ',command=c,font=buttonsFont) > Note that the text is a single space. buttonsFont uses 'Courier New' as > a family. > > When clicked,

Re: Tkinter - Button Overrelief

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:06:05 +0200, Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have some Tkinter buttons that display images. I would like to change > these to 'active' images when the mouse is over the button. > > I see that the button widget can take an 'overrelief' argument in the >

Re: simple script - Tkinter question.

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:02:39 +0200, jkuo22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Here is my simple Tkinter script: > > ## start of entry.py > from Tkinter import * > root=Tk() > e1=Entry(root, width=16) > e1.pack() > e2=Entry(root, width=16) > e2.pack() > mainloop() > ## end > > First, it

Re: Help Needed !!! Browsing and Selecting More Than One File

(Please quote at least a significant part of the message you're replying to, or people will have trouble understanding what you're talking about...) On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:42:28 +0200, Kilicaslan Fatih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Diez B. Roggisch, > > After clicking a button on the GUI t

Re: Python and CORBA

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:48:55 +0200, rodmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend an easy to install COBRA implementation which > works with Python? I am using Windows XP. I used to use fnorb (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fnorb), but the project seems to be dead. It still seems t

Re: Python and CORBA

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:11:07 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK Fnorb also had license issues - I'm not entirely sure of that, but > better check it. The earlier versions seem to have been somewhat proprietary, but the latest one should be as free as Python is. Extract

Re: How to change menu text with Tkinter?

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:29:32 +0200, Phil Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am making a little Tkinter GUI app that needs to be in several > languages (english, french, etc.), adjustable at runtime via a menu > pick to select the language. The only way I can see to change text in > the menus

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