Re: Find all available Tkinter cursor names?

2009-01-22 Thread Kevin Walzer
r wrote: Anybody know how to find all the available Tkinter cursor icon names, or where the icons are stored? like "paintbrush" "pencil" etc... http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/cursors.htm -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.

Re: Find all available Tkinter cursor names?

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Walzer
r wrote: Thanks Kevin, These are exactly the ones i already knew about. I was hoping there where more, shucks!. I wonder how i could go about making my own cursors and adding them to Tkinter? Have any ideas? http://wiki.tcl.tk/8674 might offer some help in this regard. -- Kevin Walzer Code

Re: New to python, open source Mac OS X IDE?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Walzer
on environments? Thanks! I use IDLE + Terminal myself. IDLE has improved a lot on the Mac in recent years. Another good tool is Aquamacs, a Mac-optimized version of Emacs: http://aquamacs.org -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Moving to subprocess from os.popen--pipe closes prematurely

2008-12-11 Thread Kevin Walzer
e: firstcat = rawcat self.packagelist = (firstcat, newline[1], newline[2], self.catname, newline[3].strip('\n')) I am using the fcntl call to set the pipe to nonblocking mode, and am trying to time.sleep to give the buffer time to get some data. How

Re: Python 3 and my Mac (Leopard)

2008-12-27 Thread Kevin Walzer
tinfo/pythonmac-sig It is a pretty good resource, better than the Python wiki, more up to date. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: tcl/tk version confusion with tkinter in Python 2.6, on OS X

2008-10-06 Thread kevin . walzer
On Oct 6, 4:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having trouble with tkinter on a new installation of Python (2.6), > built with the framework option from source that was downloaded from > python.org. I'm running OS 10.4 on a PowerPC G4. > > The problem first arose when I tried to run matplotlib -

Re: is there really no good gui builder

2008-11-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
k, if the product is PyQt) and use the open-source version. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Upgrade Python on a Mac

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Walzer
not update the system version of Python installed on the Mac--that's maintained by Apple and should not be touched. Instead, the installer will put in a new version alongside the Apple version. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: Adding a Badge to an Icon in Mac OS X

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Walzer
. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help with Tkinter on OS X --- driving me insane!

2009-05-17 Thread Kevin Walzer
Edward Grefenstette wrote: I thought of this. I uninstalled Tk from macports, but the same error crops up. Evidently, Tk 8.5 remains installed somewhere else, but I don't know where. How can I find out? Best, Edward Look in /Library/Frameworks... Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin

Re: Help with Tkinter on OS X --- driving me insane!

2009-05-17 Thread Kevin Walzer
Edward Grefenstette wrote: Whereas Tk 8.5 is installed in: === /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.5/ === Delete this one if you want to ensure that Python sees 8.4. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

IDLE doesn't save preferences

2009-05-20 Thread Kevin Walzer
rameworks/Python64.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1722, in __getattr__ return getattr(self.tk, attr) AttributeError: instance_dict IDLE just hangs and won't save/update my preferences. Any ideas? -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE doesn't save preferences

2009-05-20 Thread Kevin Walzer
Kevin Walzer wrote: I'm using IDLE on Mac OS X 10.5.7 (Python 2.6.2) and I'm getting a strange error when I try to save preferences from the configuration dialog: Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python64.framework/V

Re: where to get McMillan Installer?

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Walzer
gsal wrote: There does not seem to be a valid url for the Installer, anywhere. Could anyone provide me with a copy of it? many thanks. http://pyinstaller.python-hosting.com/ -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: finding icons for Apps

2008-05-25 Thread Kevin Walzer
e. The more important one is the former, because I can't even afford to pay for originals right now. But maybe I will soon, so it would be nice to have a resource. Thanks in advance, Joshua http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project http://www.oxygen-icons.org/ http://ev

Re: Getting up and running with Python on a Mac

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin Walzer
x27;s the way to go. If you want a later version of Python, you can download one from python.org, but I am not sure how that integrates wtih Xcode. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: system tray for Tk

2008-07-08 Thread Kevin Walzer
Tcl/Tk packages, but they can probably be called easily enough from Python. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: like py2exe, but on a mac

2008-07-28 Thread Kevin Walzer
the small "Console" window that pops up behind my Tkinter app. That's not something that py2app can solve. Add this call to your Python script somewhere (modify as needed): try: self.tk.call('console', 'hide') except TclError:

Re: like py2exe, but on a mac

2008-08-01 Thread Kevin Walzer
ually tried "it" (py2app), since I realized that I already had bundlebuilder, but I'm assuming it's the same in this respect. Bundlebuilder is pretty much obsolete--py2app is much better, cleaner. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.py

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-01 Thread Kevin Walzer
erstandable, but this is your chance to learn something new. Thanks for any advice or comments. DU. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-02 Thread Kevin Walzer
iently invalid DOS exe could cause physical damage to a hard drive... that wasn't the only thing I learned that day. /usr/local is a good place to install stuff in a way that won't disrupt your system. OS X/Darwin puts its system stuff in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and so on. --Kevin -- K

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-04 Thread Kevin Walzer
e" directories under a common parent, # you can use the "libinclude" helper: # # TIFF_ROOT = libinclude("/opt/tiff") FREETYPE_ROOT = None JPEG_ROOT = None #JPEG_ROOT = "/usr/local/bin" How about "/usr/local/lib" ? It's looking for a dylib (l

Re: Python packages on the Mac

2008-08-05 Thread Kevin Walzer
e, and try this command: gzcat Archive.pax.gz | pax -r "man pax" can tell you more about the pax command, pkg bundles, and the like. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

os.system question

2008-08-06 Thread Kevin Walzer
>>> import os >>> foo = os.system('whoami') kevin >>> print foo 0 >>> The standard output of the system command 'whoami' is my login name. Yet the value of the 'foo' object is '0,' not 'kevin.' How can

Re: os.system question

2008-08-07 Thread Kevin Walzer
SamG wrote: Why dont you try commands module instead Thank you! That was just what I needed. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter fullscreen with Mac OS X

2008-08-07 Thread Kevin Walzer
elp, or document Any thoughts? Can you do something similar on the tk instance itself? Try something like this (assuming self.tk._w is the name of your window): self.tk._w.wm_attributes(fullscreen='true') -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: os.system question

2008-08-13 Thread Kevin Walzer
I develop on a Unix-like system (Darwin/MacOS), so others understand where I'm coming from. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: People still using Tkinter?

2008-05-10 Thread Kevin Walzer
my screenshot) it's possible to do sophisticated user interfaces with it. It fits my brain much better than wxPython, for instance. And the long effort by Tk's developers to modernize its appearance has finally paid off, I think. Hope that helps, Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Cod

Re: People still using Tkinter?

2008-05-10 Thread Kevin Walzer
'm not sure I have time to overhaul it extensively. I'll follow your progress with interest! --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: People still using Tkinter?

2008-05-10 Thread Kevin Walzer
time to work on it further; frankly, I'm not sure I'd have time if a lot of changes were requested. So if your package proves to be the best, great! I'll switch over my own apps to it. Good luck! Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to record audio from Python on Mac?

2008-09-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
ld be much appreciated. Thanks, Skip You can probably access this functionality via PyObjC--it provides access to the Cocoa frameworks. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE doesn't run on OSX 10.3.9

2008-09-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
same 2.5.2 download from the Python.org website on OSX 10.4.11 and all went fine...but shouldn't it install on 10.3.9 as well? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks. -Tom Do you have Tcl/Tk installed? It doesn't come on 10.3.9 by default. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- ht

Re: IDLE doesn't run on OSX 10.3.9

2008-10-01 Thread Kevin Walzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just did a new install of Tcl/tk from activestate.com and IDLE still not working... -Tom Did you install Tcl/Tk 8.5? It won't work with the build of Python from python.org (it looks for 8.4). -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com --

Re: Tkinter / Mac OS X Question (Aqua vs. X11)

2006-03-13 Thread Kevin Walzer
rsion. (The "wish8.4-x11" command is just a wrapper script that invokes a completely different wish binary, linked against an entirely different set of libraries.) The advice to install Python and Tcl/Tk via Fink (or DarwinPorts) then run your script against that is the right advi

Re: Python installation problem

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin Walzer
f in the OS that depends on Python. -- Kevin Walzer iReveal: File Search Tool http://www.wordtech-software.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[wxPython-users] Re: ANNOUNCE: wxPython 2.6.3.2

2006-04-04 Thread Kevin Walzer
y by a frame and that is > already shown. > > wxMSW: Fixed wx.Choice/wx.ComboBox so they send events when a new item > is selected only with the keyboard. > > > Is the new build of wxPython-Mac a universal binary? -- Kevin Walzer iReveal: File Search Tool http://www.wordtech-

Re: Help in wxpython

2009-12-03 Thread Kevin Walzer
cally means you'll be running it under X11. (WingIDE's Mac version runs on PyGTK, and it doesn't feel native at all.) -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python tricks with applescript in OS-X

2009-12-11 Thread Kevin Walzer
re is also a Python package that allows you to interface with an application's AppleScript dictionary via Python itself, without the intermediate step of using the osascript command-line tool: http://appscript.sourceforge.net/ You might find that of interest. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Cod

Procedural API inside class--scoping questions

2010-01-11 Thread Kevin Walzer
defined. My question is, how can I get the values from the class (self.searchterm, et.al) inside the runCommand function? Thanks, Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-01-14 Thread Kevin Walzer
UI 'systems' that provide 'better' facilities to a Python programmer). Another book I've found very helpful for learning Tkinter is Programming Python by Mark Lutz--a lot of coverage there of GUI development. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Patch for IDLE/OS X to work with Tk-Cocoa

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Walzer
patch, run "patch < patchfile," with patchfile being the patch. The command-line tool will prompt you for the name of the file to patch. I'm the author of those patches--hope you find them useful! -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.

Library support for Python 3.x

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Walzer
rk is underway to support Python 3.x. Eventually I plan to migrate to Python 3.x. I don't want to be stuck using libraries that may not be updated for the next generation of Python. How are others handling this issue? --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.c

Re: myths about python 3

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
perceived demand. This is part of my reason for not yet moving to Python 3--several libraries that I will need do not currently support Python 3. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Choosing GUI Module for Python

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
. wxPython 5 . TKinter Also i need to know is there any IDE for developing these things . . . http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gui+toolkit+for+python -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python gui builders

2009-11-17 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 11/17/09 4:25 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: +1 Tkinter for the simple stuff You can actually use Tkinter to do quite sophisticated GUI's that rival anything found in Qt or wx... -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python gui builders

2009-11-18 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 11/18/09 4:15 PM, Simon Hibbs wrote: On 17 Nov, 23:25, Kevin Walzer wrote: On 11/17/09 4:25 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: +1 Tkinter for the simple stuff You can actually use Tkinter to do quite sophisticated GUI's that rival anything found in Qt or wx... Neither Tkinteror Wx have any

Re: Updates about Tk

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Walzer
g can be problematic in some cases. But, as others have discussed, give the different toolkits a try and make your own choice. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Anything like "Effective Java" for Python?

2010-03-11 Thread Kevin Walzer
ues? ~K I haven't read "Effective Java," but I have found Lutz's "Programming Python" to be a very useful guide to solving various programming issues with the language. It's a big, big book, so there's lots to look at. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www

Re: Build Python with XCode

2010-03-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
on on OS Xwith configure, make etc.-- but you could try asking on the MacPython list. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Have you embraced Python 3.x yet?

2010-03-26 Thread Kevin Walzer
I am using for apps under development haven't been ported to support 3.x yet (feedparser, pycrypto). -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
development is technically infeasible. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 12/30/10 10:24 AM, rantingrick wrote: On Dec 30, 8:59 am, Kevin Walzer wrote: On 12/29/10 6:58 PM, rantingrick wrote: Any GUI framework is going to require at least some heavy lifting in C, C++ or Objective-C (depending on the platform). A pure-Python approach to GUI development is

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com So I thought. Then I came across a framework (Cappucinno.org) and a Visual Designer (280Atlas.com) written entirely in JavaScript (well, Objective-J which gets compiled to JavaScript). Check out 280Slides.com or http://githubissues.heroku.com

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
27;s a wrapper over other wrappers. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 12/30/10 12:36 PM, rantingrick wrote: On Dec 30, 9:51 am, Kevin Walzer wrote: Tcl is not a domain-specific language for creating GUI's. Tcl is a full-featured, general-purpose programming language that is a peer to Python in its capabilities, Anybody can gloat and gush about

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
/ http://www.ellogon.org/ http://moodss.sourceforge.net/ http://www.projectforum.com/ http://www.eggheads.org/ http://brlcad.org/ http://www.muonics.com/ -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
l, BSD-style, and it is quite similar to Python's. wxWidget's library is basically LGPL with a couple of exceptions to make it friendlier to proprietary software. Could code under such a license be gracefully included in the stlib? --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebyke

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/16/11 1:27 PM, rantingrick wrote: On Jan 16, 11:39 am, Kevin Walzer wrote: First of all welcome back to the discussion Kevin. You and i both appreciate and use Tkinter extensively and your input is most welcome here. You are a smart and level headed fella which makes for good discussion

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
roup and start a grassroots movement for better mac support. Barking about a few small "annoyances" with an OS that has a "last ranked" standing is a bit bombastic to say the least. Yes? I have commit rights to the Tk core, so it's much easier for me to submit bug fixes an

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-23 Thread Kevin Walzer
tree.heading("#0", text="Directory Structure", anchor='w') tree.heading("size", text="File Size", anchor='w') tree.column("size", stretch=0, width=100) populate_roots(tree) tree.bind('<>', update_tree) tree.bind('', change_dir) # Arrange the tree and its scrollbars in the toplevel tree.grid(column=0, row=0, sticky='nswe') vsb.grid(column=1, row=0, sticky='ns') hsb.grid(column=0, row=1, sticky='ew') root.grid_columnconfigure(0, weight=1) root.grid_rowconfigure(0, weight=1) root.mainloop() -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-23 Thread Kevin Walzer
handicap Tk in your comparison. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-23 Thread Kevin Walzer
e ttk::treeview widget can also function as a multi-column listbox, and can include both tree and multi-column listbox features in a single window. It's a very flexible widget. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Code Challenge] WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-24 Thread Kevin Walzer
t can't compare with the same program made using WxPython. And it can't be made to be more accessible than it is, because it uses Tk. So Tkinter is really bad. If accessibility leads your criteria, then yes, Tk may be deficient. I can't speak to this on other platforms or with oth

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-24 Thread Kevin Walzer
and Tkinter than Bryan Oakley. Also, it's not helpful for you to respond to people who disagree with you with this kind of name-calling. It certainly does not earn any respect for your arguments. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Kevin Walzer
-forth, I am simply not persuaded, especially since the proposal being offered is not to replace Tkinter with wxPython in the stdlib, but to instead replace Tkinter with a yet-to-be-designed wxTkinter amalgamation (a Tkinter body on a wxPython chassis). --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/28/11 9:18 AM, rantingrick wrote: Everyone on this list knows that Kevin and myself are the *only* people who know how to wield Tkinter past some simple utility GUI's. I strongly disagree with this statement. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com --

Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

2011-01-31 Thread Kevin Walzer
egin cutting some code, and then invite feedback from other users and/or developers. I think that approach has a much better chance of getting off the ground and making progress than long threads on c.l.py. Good luck! --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http:/

Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

2011-02-01 Thread Kevin Walzer
ng my own itch.) Beyond that, though, hacking on IDLE isn't a project I have time for. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

2010-05-29 Thread Kevin Walzer
this: 1. If you're outputting data from the text widget, write that to a temporary text file and print via lpr. 2. If you're outputting data from the canvas, write that to a temporary postscript file and print via lpr. This is on Unix/MacOS. Not sure what the equivalent API on Windows

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-06 Thread Kevin Walzer
platforms? It sounds like an impossible goal to me. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-08 Thread Kevin Walzer
interface with it more directly than it can with other toolkits (PyGui -> PyGtk -> Gtk -> Xlib), it's not clear to me what is gained by starting from scratch here. (Is it the presence of the Tcl interpreter? I know Tcl is not to everyone's taste, but it is an amazing lan

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-08 Thread Kevin Walzer
o maintain. In fact, Perl-Tk has never been updated to run natively on the Mac because of this. There are other Perl/Tk bindings that do integrate the Tcl interpreter, and it makes it much easier for the Perl/Tk bindings to evolve as Tk itself evolves. -- Kevin Walzer Code by

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-08 Thread Kevin Walzer
://installbuilder.bitrock.com/ http://www.gidhome.com/ http://www.ellogon.org/ etc. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-08 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 6/8/10 7:16 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: On 6/8/10 6:09 PM, Lie Ryan wrote: Much like regex a DSL for matching text, Tcl/Tk is pretty much a DSL for creating GUI (anyone knows any real program fully written in non-embedded Tcl?). http://www.amsn-project.net/ http://snackamp.sourceforge.net

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-08 Thread Kevin Walzer
r GUI toolkit out there. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
ed to be made are to incorporate the new themed Tk (ttk) widgets into your Tkinter application--based on Guilherme Polo's work integrating the new widgets into the stdlib. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-10 Thread Kevin Walzer
has limitations, the toolkit is flexible enough to allow me to work around those limitations. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-11 Thread Kevin Walzer
http://www.pymol.org/ There are others, no doubt. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-12 Thread Kevin Walzer
while it wasn't horrible, I certainly did not prefer it to a native desktop app: I got sick of waiting for the app to reload because of a slow network connection. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-18 Thread Kevin Walzer
t-24708.html Here's a screenshot from one of my own Tkinter applications that makes use of ttk widgets and also such Tk extension packages as BWidgets (the treeview) and tablelist (the table view): http://www.codebykevin.com/phynchronicity-running.png --Kevin -- Kevin Walze

Re: Python 2.7, tkinter problem on OSX

2010-06-25 Thread Kevin Walzer
There has been a lot of traffic on the MacPython list about this--see the list archives. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The real problem with Python 3 - no business case for conversion (was "I strongly dislike Python 3")

2010-07-05 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 7/5/10 2:56 AM, John Nagle wrote: * PyCrypto * PyOpenSSL These, and Mark Pilgrim's feedparser, need to be 3.x compatible before I can think about Python 3.x. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The real problem with Python 3 - no business case for conversion (was "I strongly dislike Python 3")

2010-07-07 Thread Kevin Walzer
the existence of Python 3 or questioning the need to move toward Python 3. It's here, it's the way forward, and that's not going to change. Might as well accept it. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: An assessment of Tkinter and IDLE

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Walzer
ly interfaces, and the other resources I've mentioned do nothing to to change this. The practices that Mark Roseman discusses will allow one to eventually put together a UI that matches anything that the other big toolkits (wxPython, PyQt, PyObjC, PyGtk, etc.) can do. Hope this helps, K

Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-10 Thread Kevin Walzer
ndle using py2app. The average Mac user isn't going to launch a Python-based game from the command line. Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-10 Thread Kevin Walzer
s in Tkinter, help would be much appreciated. I'm not sure there's a way to do this. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread Kevin Walzer
words "Tkinter" and "good, effective GUI design" shouldn't be in the same paragraph, please see http://www.codebykevin.com/phynchronicity.html... -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Commercial or Famous Applicattions.?

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
thers that I'm not aware of. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python application launcher (for Python code)

2017-02-20 Thread Kevin Walzer
plicated than "python my script.py." Run your console of choice on any platform that supports Python. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin/Mobile Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com http://www.wtmobilesoftware.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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