Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Noble Bell
I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. My requirements will be: 1. Needs to be portable across platforms with native LAF (Windows,Linux,OSX) 2. Python 2 or 3? Which will serve me bette

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Noble Bell
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:57:22 AM UTC-5, Noble Bell wrote: > I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and > would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. > > > > My requirements will be: > > 1. Nee

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Noble Bell
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 2:32:04 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Chris "Kwpolska" Warrick > > wrote: > > > AFAIK, Qt follows the system style properly, and it looks quite native > > > on every Windows OS. No idea about ttk though. > > > > My understanding is that Q

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-25 Thread Noble Bell
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 6:35:02 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/24/2014 1:04 PM, Chris "Kwpolska" Warrick wrote: > > > > > And it might be better to stay with Python 2, there are still > > > things that don't work with Py3k that you might find crucial. > > > > It is true that there ar

Detecting user's installed Python/Tkinter packages during install of app

2014-10-16 Thread Noble Bell
I am thinking of writing a new mac and/or windows application using python 3.x and the tkinter gui toolkit. A question that I have is this.. If my application uses a version of python/tkinter that is not on the users computer will I be able to detect that during an install and automatically ins

Re: Detecting user's installed Python/Tkinter packages during install of app

2014-10-16 Thread Noble Bell
On Thursday, October 16, 2014 5:14:44 PM UTC-5, Skip Montanaro wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Noble Bell wrote: > > > If my application uses a version of python/tkinter that is not on the users > > computer will I be able to detect that during an install

OS X Menubar in Tkinter

2014-10-19 Thread Noble Bell
I am using Python 3.4 on Mac OS X and Tinter 8.5. Does anyone have any code that they would share with me on how to remove the "Python" menu in the menubar at the top next to the "apple'? I would like to have the name of my program there instead and my menu. I can add menus but not sure how to

Re: OS X Menubar in Tkinter

2014-10-20 Thread Noble Bell
On Sunday, October 19, 2014 7:49:34 PM UTC-5, Ned Deily wrote: > In article , > > Noble Bell wrote: > > > I am using Python 3.4 on Mac OS X and Tinter 8.5. Does anyone have any code > > > that they would share with me on how to remove the "Python" menu i

Py2App - Could not import Tkinter error from resulting app

2014-10-20 Thread Noble Bell
I have just created a python 3.4 application and created the setup.py file and then created an app with py2app. When I ran the resulting application I get an error in the console telling me that it could not import tkinter. Any ideas on how to correct this? Did I do something wrong? -- https:/

Re: OS X Menubar in Tkinter

2014-10-20 Thread Noble Bell
On Monday, October 20, 2014 5:47:14 AM UTC-5, Noble Bell wrote: > On Sunday, October 19, 2014 7:49:34 PM UTC-5, Ned Deily wrote: > > > In article , > > > > > > Noble Bell wrote: > > > > > > > I am using Python 3.4 on Mac OS

Re: OS X Menubar in Tkinter

2014-10-21 Thread Noble Bell
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:59:08 AM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 21/10/2014 02:34, Noble Bell wrote: > I'm pleased to see that you have an answer. In return would you please > > access this list via > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: Py2App - Could not import Tkinter error from resulting app

2014-10-21 Thread Noble Bell
On Monday, October 20, 2014 11:07:51 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > tkinter imports _tkinter > > _tkinter connects with tclx.dll and tkx.dll (x is variable) > > So one possibility is no accessible tcl/tx. I have no idea how py2app > > is supposed to handle this on your undisclosed system. >