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

2015-04-18 Thread boB Stepp
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 17/04/15 14:26, boB Stepp wrote: >> >> Solaris 10, Python 2.4.4 >> [...] > That's why GUI printing generally uses an entirely different > technique to print things (see my earlier email). In essence > this requires you to separate the data

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

2015-04-18 Thread Alan Gauld
On 18/04/15 18:03, boB Stepp wrote: Have these types of methods ever been considered for tkinter? I don't follow the TK and Tkinter mailing lists closely. You are probably better asking there. There is a gmane news feed for a Tkinter mailing list as well as an archive gmane.comp.python.tkint

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

2015-04-18 Thread boB Stepp
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Fri, 17 Apr 2015 21:06:35 +0100, Alan Gauld writes: >>On 17/04/15 15:29, Laura Creighton wrote: >> >>> just use kivy, which has the advantage that is runs under IOS and >>> Android out of the box. >> >>But does Kivy support

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

2015-04-17 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Fri, 17 Apr 2015 21:06:35 +0100, Alan Gauld writes: >On 17/04/15 15:29, Laura Creighton wrote: > >> just use kivy, which has the advantage that is runs under IOS and >> Android out of the box. > >But does Kivy support hard copy printing? >That's pretty unusual behaviour on >tablets/

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

2015-04-17 Thread Alan Gauld
On 17/04/15 15:29, Laura Creighton wrote: just use kivy, which has the advantage that is runs under IOS and Android out of the box. But does Kivy support hard copy printing? That's pretty unusual behaviour on tablets/phones. If so can you show us a short example of how it works. (Technically

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

2015-04-17 Thread Alan Gauld
On 17/04/15 14:26, boB Stepp wrote: Solaris 10, Python 2.4.4 Thanks to earlier help from this list, I can now print a particular Tkinter-generated window. But this will only print what is currently viewable on the screen. Because it is effectively taking a screen shot. In the case of scrolle

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

2015-04-17 Thread Laura Creighton
>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 ad

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

2015-04-17 Thread boB Stepp
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Laura Creighton 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