> On 06/09/11 22:24, Alessandro Magni wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I hope somebody here can give me a hand - I'm not so expert in GUI > > programming. > > I tried - in a Tkinter program I'm writing - to embed a terminal > > (linux here) in the main window - the program is a simple wiki, and I > > believe it's useful to have a small terminal handy... > > Optionally, I would like also to be able to let my program interact > > with the terminal - at a minimum I'd like to read the current working > > directory, and to set it.
> I've modified your little example above with some success: > > from Tkinter import * > import os > > root = Tk() > termf = Frame(root, height=200, width=400) > termf.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES) > wid = termf.winfo_id() > os.system('xterm -into %d -geometry 400x200 -e /root/.bashrc&' % wid) > > root.mainloop() . . > Alessandro, when you write "Optionally, I would like also to be > able to let my program interact with the terminal - at a minimum > I'd like to read the current working directory, and to set it" > and "... it doesn't work", I am unsure of your meaning. John > answered what I understand of your question about Tkinter coding > well; do you also want help communicating between the xterm's > $SHELL and the Python application, or do you have what you need > for that aspect, already? John, Cameron, thank you so much for your help... I feel a bit stupid, what was happening was a problem in the launch of xterm (I mistakenly wrote an option), Tkinter works flawlessly... Anyway I'm glad we talked about it since the general mood on stackoverflow was - as I said - that a) it was a very complex problem and b) you could not hope to solve it with such a joke as Tkinter. Serve them right! I answered them with your help, let's see if they can do it in so few lines with pyGTK :-) Anyway I'm still working on the interaction between the program and the terminal: I dont know if it can be done internally by python, but I found this program http://www.thrysoee.dk/xtermcontrol/ that could help, I'm working on it... thank you again alessandro _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss