[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie stuff

tomtom llatz@stuttgart.netsurf.de
Tue, 04 May 1999 10:58:12 +0200


> 
> Lukas,
> 
> forget TKinter presently, and IDLE too :(  It has been reported
> that TK 8.x doesn't run properly yet (yes, you have to install tk first).
> Take the IDE, that's definitly the way to go on mac (dont use debugger
> breakpoints presently, will be fixed at 1.5.2).
> 
> BTW: there is a german mailinglist too.
> Somewhere at <http://starship.python.net>
> 
> regards
> 
> -- Peter
> 
> PS: Hey, auch'n Nachtarbeiter :-)
> 
:-)
thanks for the info, Peter, i carried on regardless of the abovementioned
problems and downloaded and installed the new tcl-tk stuff; put an alias to
tk's shdlb into python's plugins folder and whoopie, the tkinter examples in
the matt folder in the demo folder all worked except for
window-creation-with-location.py (from TkinterUtils  import * ImportError: No
module named TkinterUtils).
not bad.
well if newbie questions are ok here (?), here are some more:

so are there any really serious problems with tkinter that suggest it really
shouldn´t be used?
i wasn´t aware that the IDE is supposed to *replace* tkinter (?), altho i saw
it has some windowing stuff. is it meant to replace tkinter on the mac altogether?
another dumb question: i am kind of wary of having hulking folders in my
extension folder. is it ok to move the tk shdlib into pythons plug-ins folder
and just trash the tcl folder? (tcl fans, no offense..)
lukas