[Tutor] Python and Tkinter Programming by Grayson--New Version?

[ALAN GAULD]

Here is the news about a new Tk in Python:
(Posted on the TkDocs web site - the home of Tk)

================

February 03, 2009
Ttk support in Python.
Guilherme Polo passed along the great news that his pyttk module has been accepted into Python's standard library.  
That means we should see pyttk generally available with Python 2.7 and 3.1 (both still in development).  You can see the current docs here.  And of course, this is something I was waiting for before updating TkDocs with Python info and examples.
Thanks for all your hard work Guilherme!
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Note this seems to be a recent web site and they 
are still building a lot of the documentation, 
but it looks like it should turn into a very 
useful Tk resource.

As for the Tkinter mailing list. You can either 
watch it via the gmane news feed (which  I do) 
and using your preferred news reader subscribe 
to:

gmane.comp.python.tkinter

Or on the web at:

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tkinter

or go to

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss

to sign up for the emails.


HTH,


Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn To Program website
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/





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From: Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net>
To: ALAN GAULD <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 18 March, 2009 12:25:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Python and Tkinter Programming by Grayson--New Version?

 How do I get to that mail list? 

I see no evidence of a "new" Tkinter in my internet Googling. Maybe
it's going by a new name? 

ALAN GAULD wrote: 
Tk
is far from dead.

Try the Tkinter mailing list, it is at 
least as busy as the tutor one. And the 
Tcl/Tk side of things has had a new 
lease of life over the past two years 
with a complete re-architecture of Tk 
resulting in the new native-look widgets.

We just need that new found activity to 
translate to Tkinter...

 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn To Program website
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
 




________________________________
From: Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net>
To: Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 18
March, 2009 2:24:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor]
Python and Tkinter Programming by Grayson--New Version?

Working with Tkinter is like trying to dig through fossils. So much out
there is old or incomplete. It's like the Tk species went extinct. The
trail seems to end in 2005. I think I read it's not quite dead, and a
newer looking is coming. 

Alan Gauld wrote: 
"Wayne
Watson" <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote 


I've poked around at the pieces of the book
in Subject, which are on the web 
It was published in 2000, first ed. It looks quite good, and certainly
is big, 

About a third of it is reference material. Not a bad thing, I use it a
lot, but 
other sources have the same stuff. A lot is PMW which although still
active 
I think, is no longer the only add on toolkit. Indeed Tix is now partof
the 
standard library and adds a lot of the same sort of things. (Tabbed
notebooks 
etc) 

The other oddity is a fair portion of the book is taken up with
building 
photo-realistic UIs. This is not something I've ever found a need for! 
It is quite impressive but of distinctly limitedvalue for most
programmers 
IMHO. 


I'd like to think the author is going to
produce another version. 

I've seen no signs of that. And although some of the newer widgets 
are not included very little of the book is out of date. 

OTOH if you just need a reference the "Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell" by
O'Reilly 
might suit just as well and is available very cheaply second hand 
on Amazon... It is my second most used Tk source. (after Lundh's 
online reference, Grayson is my third!) It also covers Tix. 

Alan G. 

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