[newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

[Jean Dupont]

Op woensdag 22 januari 2014 15:45:53 UTC+1 schreef Jean Dupont:
> Op maandag 20 januari 2014 10:17:15 UTC+1 schreef Alister:
> > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:04:05 -0800, Jean Dupont wrote:
> >
> > > Op zaterdag 18 januari 2014 16:12:41 UTC+1 schreef Oscar Benjamin:
> > >> On 18 January 2014 14:52, Jean Dupont <jeandupont314 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks Peter and Terry Jan for the useful suggestions. One thing
> > >> > which I
> > >> >find a bit weird: when asking for Python-help concerning raspberry pi
> > >> >code
> > >> > or problems, a lot of people don't seem to be interested in helping
> > >> > out,
> > >> > that's of course their choice, but maybe they don't seem to be aware
> > >> > the raspberry pi is often the motivation for starting to learn to
> > >> > program in
> > >> >Python. And as such such a reaction is a bit disappointing.
> > >> Hi Jean,
> > >> What makes you say that? Did you previously ask questions about
> > >> Rasberry Pi code on this list?
> > > It was not about code but about python-coding in IDLE (that's the
> > > default on raspbian):
> > > I started a thread "[newbie] starting geany from within idle does not
> > > work" both here and in the raspberry pi forum. I just wondered why I
> > > never got an answer concerning that topic.
> > > 
> > >> If you did I wouldn't have answered those questions because I've never
> > >> used a Raspberry Pi and know nothing about them (except that they
> > >> encourage using Python somehow). I think that there's actually a list
> > >> that is specifically for Raspberry Pi Python questions that might be
> > >> more helpful although I don't know what it is...
> > > Here is the url to that forum
> > > 
> > > http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/
> > > 
> > > kind regards,
> > > jean
> >
> > Personally  use Geany  stand alone and not under idle, pressing F5 should 
> > save & run the code you are currently editing. Would running under idle 
> > give any other benefits? 
> I don't know yet, but I just wanted to try out which of the following three I'd like best:
> 1. idle+leafpad
> 2. idle+geany
> 3. plain geany
>
> It's normal for a newbie to start with (1) as that is the default on raspbian,
> however I still don't understand why (2) does not work...
I finally found out where I was wrong: leafpad is _not_ the default choice
in IDLE, IDLE has its own built in editor and IDLE does not allow to use
another editor. The confusion stemmed from the properties I got when right
clicking on the IDLE-icon on the raspbian desktop, which shows "Open with"
and then suggests the default choice is Leafpad and Geany as a second
choice, it has however nothin to do with IDLE as such.

kind regards,
jean