[Tutor] Tkinter Question

Harry Kattz gibbs05@flash.net
Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:40 -0600


Greetings All,

I may not have found the answer to the icon question yet, but I have learned
about The Vaults of Parnassus and more about Tcl/Tk.

I guess the next step in this is to barge in on the Tcl folks. :-)


Thanks,
Sam

> > Alan, I understand from this that you believe a modification
> > to Tk itself would have to be made?  I'm a bit surprised too.
>
> I believe so since there doesn't seem to be a way to set or
> change the icon in Tcl/Tk either. Therefore the problem lies
> in the Windows implementation of Tk, I assume.
>
> > I guess my next step, unless Alan has already tried this,
> > would be to post this question in comp.lang.tcl
>
> Nope, I tried the Tcl/Tk FAQ and several books. I also tried
> the c.l.python newsgroups but didn''t think of the c.l.tcl
> one. OTOH Cameron Laird hangs out in both and I think would
> have responded if there was a simple solution (the question
> gets asked a lot - as a search on deja news reveals!).
>
> > considering e-mailing Fredrik Lundh about this topic to see
> > what he knows. Does anyone know if he's a friendly sort?
>
> He regularly contributes on c.l.python...
>
> > A cursory glance at comp.lang.tcl revealed something called
> > TkTable!!!
>
> Whats one of them??? I've never heard of it and how would
> that help change the icon?
>
> > Tkinter table widget would be much more useful than that
> > little icon. :-)
>
> Or do you just mean in general... Isn't there a Tkinter table
> widget floating around? Matbe via the Vaults of p webpage?
> Or is it part of PMW?
>
> Alan G