Need GUI pop-up to edit a (unicode ?) string

[Corey Richardson]

On 01/22/2011 03:22 PM, Rikishi42 wrote:
>
> I'm in need for a graphical pop-up that will display a (unicode ?) string in
> a field, allow the user to change it and return the modified string.
>
> Maybe also keep the original one displayed above it.
>
>
> Something like this:
> +-------------------------------------------------+
> |   Please confirm or edit the following string   |
> |                                                 |
> |     Original_example_string                     |
> |                                                 |
> |  +-------------------------------------------+  |
> |  |  Original_about_to_be_changed             |  |
> |  +-------------------------------------------+  |
> |                                                 |
> |                     OK                          |
> |                                                 |
> +-------------------------------------------------+
>
>
> I've never used any kind of graphical interface programing before, so I
> don't have a clue where to start.
> This would, however, be the *only* GUI part in the app at this point.
>
>> From what I can see the solution lays with PyQT, but the docs I find are
> courses that aim to teach the whole GUI tool. I only need a little pop-up to
> alow a user to edit part of a filename, for instance.
>
>
> I'm using Python 2.6.x on various Linux platforms (mainly openSUSE and Mint)
> and on Windows. Windows support is not important, in this case.
>
>
>

If that is all you need, I suggest Tkinter. Nice and easy, comes built 
into Python. Looks like you need two labels, an entry, and a button. 
When I was learning Tkinter I used http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/.

Hope it helped,
~Corey