Mailman 3 August 2016 - Tkinter-discuss

Control position of Tkinter common dialogs?
by python＠bdurham.com Dec. 9, 2016

Dec. 9, 2016

Python 2.7 under Windows: How can we control the position of Tkinter's common dialogs? Here's what we've discovered: * Certain common dialogs always open up relative to their parent window * Certain common dialogs always open up centered on the user's desktop * All common dialogs appear to ignore the optional parent= parameter Questions: * How can we force a dialog to open up relative to its parent window? * How can we force a dialog to open up centered on the user's desktop? Background: import tkColorChooser as colorchooser import tkFileDialog as filedialog import tkMessageBox as messagebox # always open up relative to parent windows fileOpen = filedialog.askopenfilename() fileOpens = filedialog.askopenfilenames() fileSaveAs = filedialog.asksaveasfilename() color = colorchooser.askcolor() # always open up centered on desktop folderOpen = filedialog.askdirectory() messagebox.askquestion() Malcolm

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CMD in Tkinter (Python 3)
by Hayden Ravenscroft Sept. 4, 2016

Sept. 4, 2016

Hi all, I'm attempting to write an IDE for python, in python. My major problem is embedding a console on a tkinter frame so the IDE can run the user's script. I have browsed through many solutions, but they are mostly for Python 2 only (and no, converting them did not work). I looked at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7253448/how-to-embed-a-terminal-in-a-tki… But xterm only works with Linux - is there a windows solution? Thanks, Hayden

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Dialog as transient above current toplevel
by Vasilis Vlachoudis Aug. 26, 2016

Aug. 26, 2016

Dear all, in my program I want to provide a more understandable text in the simple dialogs for exiting the program if there is modified buffer and some other messages. Instead of creating one dialog for each I use the tkinter dialog Dialog.py like import Dialog ... ans = Dialog.Dialog(self.winfo_toplevel(), {"title":"Multiple Plot", "text":"Continue with the next\nOr do all plots", "bitmap": Dialog.DIALOG_ICON, "default": 0, "strings": ("Next","All","Cancel")}) if ans.num==1: doall = True elif ans.num==2: break However the displayed dialog is centred over the desktop and not above the running application, which is rather confusing. Is there a way to center it over my toplevel window? Thanks in advance Vasilis

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Trying to contact the copyright holder of some code
by Samus Rao Aug. 7, 2016

Aug. 7, 2016

Hi! I've been trying to contact Ron Longo, who formerly used this forum, but have thus far been unable to locate current contact details. Could anybody help me with this? He is the copyright holder on some code (http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/ wiki/StyledText) which I have been hoping to tinker with. However, no licence has been provided for it. I am hoping to clear up this point, so that I don't end up leaving code to rot on my hard drive forever. Thanks in advance, Samus

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