beeline through tkinter

[Eric Brunel]

Elaine Jackson wrote:
> I'm about to tackle tkinter, but here's the thing: The only kind of GUI I want
> to work on is a chessboard (an 8x8 grid of images that can be "moved around").
> So before I start, I'm asking the room at large: Is there some way of going
> directly to what I'm interested in? Any help will be very much appreciated.

If you don't already have it, download the source distribution of Python and go 
to the Demo/tkinter/matt sub-directory. There are many examples here that you 
can use to do what you want; see for example canvas-moving-w-mouse.py

HTH
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