Sounds like the O'Reilly book might be worth it. I have an interlibrary
loan request out for a highly recommended Tk/Tcl book. I tried Cygwin
about 5 years ago, and it just didn't cut it. Odd problems. It may be
worth a shot again when I can free up some time.
Alan Gauld wrote:
"Wayne
Watson" <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net>
wrote
Yep, when I bowed of programming long ago, I
had Ousterhout's
(something like that) book, and finally sold it on Amazom 5 years ago
It was a good book in its day but is now well overdue an update.
The book I'd recommend getting is Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell from O'Reilly
Its only a reference but it covers Tk and Tix. There is hardly any
Python
docs for Tix although it is now part of the standard library. (Actually
I think Tkinter needs an update too, there seem to be quite a few
new Tk widgets that are not available in Tkinter... or is it just that
they are not documented? I must have a poke around in v2.5...
But the Nutshell seems to cover all the stuff that is in Tkinter)
You can get a used Nutshell for around $6 via Amazon (and it
covers expect too should you ever dabble with pyExpect).
[ But note: for serious Tcl users the best book is Welsh's offering
the Niutshell is just a reference that translates fairly easily to
Tkinter/Tix]
On Linux, I started using it in 1993 with RedHat 2 and Slackware 3.
I dropped out for a spell then came back to it around Slackware 7
and Mandrake (now Mandriva) 3? But then I bought a Mac iBook and
discovered cygwin and my current Linux box (Suse 9?) is lying idle.
It only gets booted when I want to test some web things because
it runs apache and Turbo Gears.
Although I do now have an Asus Eee mini laptop with Linux and I'm
using that to do some stuff now and then.
Alan G.
_______________________________________________
Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
--
Signature.html
Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
“In mathematics you don't understand things.
You just get used to them.” -- John Von Neumann
(P.S. The same is true in life.)
Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>
|
_______________________________________________
Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
