A followup on the message below. The source code has errors in it
because I keyed it in rather than copying and pasting, as pointed out by
Alan Gauld. Joe replied with corrected code and said it worked for
him. I took his code and ran it on the Mac and had the same problem as
before: everything but the background color worked. I then installed
Python on a Windows PC and tried the same code: with the PC, the
background color works. So the problem seems to be bug in Tkinter for
the Mac. Thanks Alan and Joe for your help.
Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:07:58 -0700
From: Arden Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Tutor] Tkinter problem
To: tutor@python.org
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I'm trying to learn to use Tkinter from "Thinking in Tkinter" and don't
seem to be able to get the examples to work the way they are supposed
to. I have the latest version of Python on a Macbook. Here's an
example of the kind of problem I run into:
The source code is:
from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
myContainer1 = Frame(root)
myContainer.pack()
button1 = Button(myContainer1)
button1["text"} = "Hello, World!"
button1[background"] = "green"
button1.pack
root.mainloop()
I can execute this, but the button isn't green (or any other color I
try) although it turns blue when I click the mouse on it. . Similarly,
I've tried to write a bit of code to create a canvas object and put a
rectangle in it, but I can't dimension the canvas, change its color, or
get the rectangle to appear. Any advice or suggestion where to look for
documentation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Arden
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