On Apr 23, 1:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 23, 9:52 am, KDawg44 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I am new to Python and am trying to write a little front end to > > another application in Python. > > > What I want is to have a gui pop up listing some items with several > > buttons. The guts of the program I am not having any trouble with but > > the GUI part I am (or more accurately, the transition between GUI > > pieces). > > > The first GUI that pops up lists some groups in a listbox and gives > > the user the choice to create a new group, open a group, rename the > > group, or delete the group. The new group and rename group buttons > > pop up a dialog gui asking for the name/new name. The Open Group is > > to open another GUI listing projects within that group in a list with > > similar options (New Project, Open Project, Rename Project, Delete > > Project). > > > My question is, how should I create all these GUIs? Should each GUI > > be its own class with its own __init__? Then is the first GUI the > > root (how I have it set up now) and all other GUIs using Toplevel()? > > > I hope this makes sense (because it only sort of makes sense in my > > head). > > > THanks for any suggestions. > > I am assuming you are using Tkinter for your GUI front-end. You should > be able to just use standard dialog boxes for your "new group" and > "rename group" dialogs and a custom hand-coded dialog for the other > one. All three can be called with ShowModal() instead of Toplevel(). > And yes, the custom dialog would work best if you made it into a > separate class. > > You could also put that information for the GUI that list projects > into a "tree" widget of some sort, maybe with a splitter window. I > haven't had much luck with Tkinter's tree widgets though. PMW and Tix > both have rather poor docs unless you enjoy man pages. You might check > out wxPython instead. It has an excellent demo that is very good at > showing you not only what all it can do, but how it is done:www.wxpython.org. > > Good luck! > > Mike
Sorry about the dual posting. This thing isn't posting correctly for me today. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
