Mailman 3 February 2017 - Tkinter-discuss

file dialog changes
by CAB Feb. 23, 2017

Feb. 23, 2017

Hi, All, I have been happily developing applications in a Win32/Python 2.7 environment for years, now. I recently decided I needed to update multiple python packages, so I installed Anaconda on my Win7 computer. Everything is more or less fine (once I dealt with some backward compatibility issues), but I noticed that the file dialogs called by tkinter are different now. Here is what askopenfilename used to look like:I like it! But here is the new version:Blech! I have googled the bejeezus out of this, but I can't find an explanation for the difference. I think it must boil down to differences in Tk/Tcl, or a setting therein, or possibly pywin32. But I just haven't been able to figure it out. Obviously, I'd like to go back to the old appearance. If anyone has any suggestions to fix this problem, I would be most appreciative. Best,Chad

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Looking for maintainer / hosting for tkinter wiki
by Jeff Epler Feb. 22, 2017

Feb. 22, 2017

Hello all. I have run a tkinter wiki (https://tkinter.unpythonic.net/) for many years. It doesn't see much traffic, and my interests and hobby time allocation haven't really aligned with it for quite some time. Consequently, I am looking for someone to take over maintainance and hosting of the site. Right now it is hosted on atlantic.net with a "GO"-size instance (1 vCPI, 256MB RAM, 10GB disk) running debian jessie x86_64 and moin 1.9.x. Webserver is apache2. Letsencrypt is used for the https certificate, via the 'simp_le' client. Looking at one day's apache logs there are <3000 HTTP requests per day. I can supply a copy of the full disk or just the webroot for tkinter (5.7GB and 1.4GB respectively, uncompressed), or rsync/root access for a new maintainer to effect transfer to a new system. (Unfortunately, atlantic.net's API doesn't seem to support transferring to another user, which otherwise would be a great way for a new maintainer to take over the system) If possible I'd like to terminate my maintainance and hosting of tkinter.unpythonic.net "sometime this spring". I am holding on to unpythonic.net, so I can probably supply redirection (either by a DNS CNAME or a HTTP 302 redirect) indefinitely, but will commit to doing it for at least 2 years. If you would like to take over this duty, please contact me off-list and make sure to include the words "tkinter wiki" in the subject line. If another maintainer doesn't step up, I may pull the plug on the wiki sometime after May 31, 2017. Jeff

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How to get symbolic links from filedialog.askopenfilename?
by Aivar Annamaa Feb. 22, 2017

Feb. 22, 2017

Hi! Looks like tkinter.filedialog.askopenfilename (Tk 8.5) expands symbolic links (at least on Mac). Any ideas how to avoid this and get the selected link itself? Best regards, Aivar

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Define height in a row of a grid manager
by Vasilis Vlachoudis Feb. 12, 2017

Feb. 12, 2017

Dear all, I am trying to optimize the screen space use in a small screen QVGA mounted on a RPi On the first row (using the grid manager) I display the time with big fonts. The space allocated for the row includes, correctly includes the descent of the font however in the case of numbers its an empty space. So its loosing a lot of useful screen space there. Is there a way to force the height of a single row in the grid manager to be equal to the font ascent only? Thanks in advance Vasillis

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