[Edu-sig] Re: Teaching graphics with Python (was Introductoryhighschool programming)

[Gregor Lingl]

John Zelle schrieb:

> ...
> My latest version of the package (still in testing) adds an option to 
> turn off the auto-flush. Using this option, you can do a bunch of 
> draws before actually updating the view. 

Interestigly the module turtle.py (in the standard distribution of 
Python) already has a similar feature,
namely the function (method) tracer().

> I think the result would be a much faster draw, but it's still going 
> to be slower than PIL
>
> If you're interested, I could post the latest version of graphics.py.
>
Yes, I'm also interested in this latest version.

> This is problem with graphics.py. Tk provides a method to dump 
> canvases to postscript, but the last time I checked it only worked 
> under Unix/Linux. I'm not sure if this has been brought into the 
> Windows world as well, I haven't looked recently.

In my experience this still dowsn't work correctly.  A ps-file will be 
produced but it displays
only as a tiny blank rectangle.

Regards, Gregor

>
> --John
>