[Tutor] How to print ALL contents of a scrolled Tkinter window?

boB Stepp robertvstepp at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 17:05:10 CEST 2015


On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
>>While I can probably make this
>>approach work (It *seems* conceptually simple.), I cannot help but
>>feel there is a much better way...
>
> Tkinter is very old software.  This sort of scrolling you want was
> in no way common when Tkinter was new.  For things like this, I
> just use kivy, which has the advantage that is runs under IOS and
> Android out of the box.
>
> The whole point of kivy is to create better, new paradigm user interfaces,
> where scrolling surfaces are built-in.
>
> It may be faster for you to reimplement what you have in kivy than to
> try to get Tkinter to do what you want.

Alas! I am not allowed to install any new software on these systems
(Which use Python 2.4.4 or 2.6.4.). So I am stuck with whatever tools
are installed by default, and that does not include your suggestion.
However, I will look into kivy for my at-home studies/projects!


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boB


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