Re: Tkinter docs?

On 2023-05-26, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote: > Grant, I may well buy one of the books you suggested. I haven't had look at either of the newer books, but I got a lot of good out of the Grayson book (20 years ago). I also had a Tcl/Tk book that I found useful even when usng tkinter, but

Re: Tkinter docs?

Thanks to everyone who replied.  All replies were constructive, none were telling me to stop belly-aching. I forgot/omitted to state that it was I who wrote the original project (in a completely different language), making the task of re-writing it much less formidable.  And meaning that I am

Re: Tkinter docs?

On 24May2023 02:18, Rob Cliffe wrote:     There doesn't seem to be any decent documentation for it anywhere. Already mentioned in the replies, I use this: https://tkdocs.com/shipman/index.html quite a lot. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter docs?

Am 24.05.23 um 03:18 schrieb Rob Cliffe: I have recently started converting a large project to tkinter, starting with zero knowledge of tkinter.  (You are free to think: BAD IDEA. ) Welcome to the awesome world of GUI development.     I was writing a subclass of the Checkbutton class

Re: Tkinter docs?

On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 13:11, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote: > > I have recently started converting a large project to tkinter, starting > with zero knowledge of tkinter. (You are free to think: BAD IDEA. ) > I am well aware that adopting a new tool always involves a learning > curve, and

Re: Tkinter docs?

On 5/23/23 21:18, Rob Cliffe wrote: Comments, anyone? Better yet (holds breath ...) can anyone point me towards some decent tkinter documentation? The variables are slightly more integrated when using tcl/tk directly, python has to have the object so you can track/use them easier. And the

Re: Tkinter docs?

On 2023-05-24, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote: > I have recently started converting a large project to tkinter, starting > with zero knowledge of tkinter.  (You are free to think: BAD IDEA. ) Well, you could be translating them to Tcl/Tk -- so on the scale of bad ideas, your's barely

Tkinter docs?

I have recently started converting a large project to tkinter, starting with zero knowledge of tkinter.  (You are free to think: BAD IDEA. ) I am well aware that adopting a new tool always involves a learning curve, and that one is prone to think that things are more difficult than they

[issue464900] Include TKInter Docs

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[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

Zachary Ware added the comment: I'm closing this as a duplicate of bpo-42560 (and probably several others). Chris: in short, we know the Tkinter docs are incomplete and we welcome improvements to them, but it costs just as much to say "I don't have the time to spend on this"

[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

E. Paine added the comment: > full, complete, useful documentation of everything Please see msg384022 on why I'm personally against such changes. I was working on 'translating' the Tk man pages into something (hopefully) understandable by tkinter users (as reference documentation), however

[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

Chris Trent added the comment: To put it bluntly, having me submit patches to that section of the docs is just about the last thing you want. I know precious little about TKinter, which is precisely why I'm calling for something more than a half-assed tutorial. Regarding using the TCL/TK

[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: Are you referring to this? https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html I acknowledge that there are legitimate criticism of the tkinter docs, and its weaknesses, but you overstate your case. - Tutorials are documentation, they just aren't *reference

[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

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[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

being able to just go to the source, and find a page to, I don't know, find out what kinds of panels we have to work with. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 396313 nosy: arkevorkhat, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: TKinter docs

[issue35086] tkinter docs: errors in A Simple Hello World Program

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[issue35086] tkinter docs: errors in A Simple Hello World Program

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset c843a47007293d8361d0bfd45bfd7169afaa601c by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6': bpo-35086: Fix tkinter example "A Simple Hello World Program". (GH-10160) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c843a47007293d8361d0bfd45bfd7169afaa601c

[issue35086] tkinter docs: errors in A Simple Hello World Program

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset f51ef51db686938486bff453e791a3093a1df108 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-35086: Fix tkinter example "A Simple Hello World Program". (GH-10160) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f51ef51db686938486bff453e791a3093a1df108

[issue35086] tkinter docs: errors in A Simple Hello World Program

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Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset a80af770870937271865b5e2b05a2cfe40b024b6 by Serhiy Storchaka (Daniel Lovell) in branch 'master': bpo-35086: Fix tkinter example "A Simple Hello World Program". (GH-10160)

[issue35086] tkinter docs: errors in A Simple Hello World Program

Daniel Lovell added the comment: Thanks for the reply xtreak. I agree that changing the example to include main() isn't necessary - I unintentionally included that from my example of the case where the current version isn't functional. In the PR I submitted on Github

[issue35086] tkinter docs: errors in A Simple Hello World Program

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: Thanks for the report. So the current example in the docs works fine since root is in global namespace. But this seems to be a sensible change to use self.master which references root instead of relying on root to be global though I don't know we

[issue35086] tkinter docs: errors in A Simple Hello World Program

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[issue35086] tkinter docs: errors in A Simple Hello World Program

command=self.master.destroy) self.quit.pack(side="bottom") def say_hi(self): print("hi there, everyone!") def main(): root = tk.Tk() app = Application(master=root) app.mainloop() if __name__ == "__main__": main() "&quo

[ python-Bugs-1108490 ] broken link in tkinter docs

: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Ilya Sandler (isandler) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: broken link in tkinter docs Initial Comment: Compound link on http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node721.html is broken

[ python-Bugs-1108490 ] broken link in tkinter docs

Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Ilya Sandler (isandler) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: broken link in tkinter docs Initial Comment: Compound link on http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node721.html is broken