Re: Welch essential for learning Tkinter well?

2007-04-07 Thread Dick Moores
At 10:36 AM 4/6/2007, Russell E. Owen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Walzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Stroud wrote: This begs the question, is anyone truly an expert in Tkinter? Frederick Lundh is, if anyone is.

Re: Welch essential for learning Tkinter well?

2007-04-07 Thread James Stroud
Dick Moores wrote: At 10:36 AM 4/6/2007, Russell E. Owen wrote: I find Welch's book and the on-line tcl/tk help very helpful for Tkinter programming--especially some of the more obscure details. But to use either of these resources comfortably you must learn the basics of Tkinter first

Re: Welch essential for learning Tkinter well?

2007-04-07 Thread Dick Moores
At 03:43 AM 4/7/2007, James Stroud wrote: Dick Moores wrote: At 10:36 AM 4/6/2007, Russell E. Owen wrote: I find Welch's book and the on-line tcl/tk help very helpful for Tkinter programming--especially some of the more obscure details. But to use either of these resources comfortably you

Re: Welch essential for learning Tkinter well?

2007-04-06 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Walzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Stroud wrote: This begs the question, is anyone truly an expert in Tkinter? Frederick Lundh is, if anyone is. http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/index.htm (outdated)

Welch essential for learning Tkinter well?

2007-04-05 Thread Dick Moores
In a couple of places recently I've seen Brent Welch's _Practical Programming in Tcl Tk_ (http://tinyurl.com/ynlk8b) recommended for learning Tkinter well. So a couple of questions: 1) Is it really good for learning Tkinter, even though it doesn't mention Tkinter at all (in the 4th edition

Re: Welch essential for learning Tkinter well?

2007-04-05 Thread James Stroud
Dick Moores wrote: In a couple of places recently I've seen Brent Welch's _Practical Programming in Tcl Tk_ (http://tinyurl.com/ynlk8b) recommended for learning Tkinter well. So a couple of questions: 1) Is it really good for learning Tkinter, even though it doesn't mention Tkinter

Re: Welch essential for learning Tkinter well?

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin Walzer
James Stroud wrote: This begs the question, is anyone truly an expert in Tkinter? Frederick Lundh is, if anyone is. http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/index.htm (outdated) http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/ (new but incomplete) Coming to Python from a Tcl/Tk background, I find

Re: Welch essential for learning Tkinter well?

2007-04-05 Thread Paul Rubin
Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a couple of places recently I've seen Brent Welch's _Practical Programming in Tcl Tk_ (http://tinyurl.com/ynlk8b) recommended for learning Tkinter well. I'm skeptical of the value of learning Tkinter really well. No matter how thoroughly you learn it,