[Tutor] How to use tkinter with a touch screen device?

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Sat Jul 18 06:22:19 CEST 2015


In a message of Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:49:16 -0500, boB Stepp writes:
>> ... On the other hand, kivy
>> ought to work for you. http://kivy.org/#home  I've yet to try it on
>> a windows tablet, though.
>
>I think it was you who mentioned this GUI framework on the main python
>list fairly recently.  In fact, on my phone I have left its web page
>up to look at when I get a chance.  Does kivy have all of the
>functionality of tkinter in addition to supporting multi-touch
>gestures?  Any downsides I should be aware of?  Judging by their
>"Hello, world" example, the code looks even simpler than tkinter.
>Does everything have to be written as classes?
>
>Thanks, Laura!
>
>-- 
>boB

You are most welcome.

Everything has to be written as classes.  So far, I haven't found
anything I could do with tkinter that I cannot do with kivy, but
I haven't coded anything really complicated with it yet, either.

Laura



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