[Tutor] How to use tkinter with a touch screen device?
Laura Creighton
lac at openend.se
Sat Jul 18 06:22:19 CEST 2015
In a message of Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:49:16 -0500, boB Stepp writes:
>> ... On the other hand, kivy
>> ought to work for you. http://kivy.org/#home I've yet to try it on
>> a windows tablet, though.
>
>I think it was you who mentioned this GUI framework on the main python
>list fairly recently. In fact, on my phone I have left its web page
>up to look at when I get a chance. Does kivy have all of the
>functionality of tkinter in addition to supporting multi-touch
>gestures? Any downsides I should be aware of? Judging by their
>"Hello, world" example, the code looks even simpler than tkinter.
>Does everything have to be written as classes?
>
>Thanks, Laura!
>
>--
>boB
You are most welcome.
Everything has to be written as classes. So far, I haven't found
anything I could do with tkinter that I cannot do with kivy, but
I haven't coded anything really complicated with it yet, either.
Laura
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