[Tutor] tkinter message & button questions

[Wayne Werner]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Cranky Frankie <cranky.frankie at gmail.com>wrote:

> Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
> <snip>Peter thanks again. The msg_widget is still resizing vertically
> depending on the lenght of the quote, but at least now the horizontal
> sizing is staying the same. Ideally the msg_widget would be the *same
> size*, no matter what the quote length is, but since this program is
> really just a learning exercise and to show database adminstrators a
> simple Python GUI application I can live with it.
>

The whole purpose of the Message widget is that it *does* resize. If you
wanted something to be a static size, I think a Label would fit the bill -
though I haven't played around enough with that in recent time.


>
> The syntax you used, like "root.geometry("400x100")", I have not seen
> before, and I've done a lot of searching. Again, much of the tkinter
> stuff I see seems to be based on Python 2.6. If there is a definitive
> book or reference on using tkinter in Python 3.x I'd really like to
> know about it.
>
>
That's the great thing about Python - most of the syntax is identical, and
there should be only minor differences between Python 2.x and 3.x -
especially where Tkinter is concerned.

I would go ahead and look at 2.x tutorials/articles for Tkinter and just be
aware that you'll encounter some issues (probably mostly dealing with
Unicode strings, and occasionally something numeric - based on my
experience). With that preparation then you should be able to easily search
for answers to the problems you encounter.

HTH,
Wayne
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