[Tkinter-discuss] getting started - canvas - "multislider" / function editor

[Tim Mortimer]

Thanks Martin, glad I stayed tuned.

I've never built anything from source, & i'm on windows (curses!), so a tar
ball is not something i have experiences with as such.

None the less, hopefully your reference will lead me to some useful
information. I'll explore my installation for examples & failing that, look
for some source code.

Thanks for checking the trash. 

Tim.


Martin Franklin wrote:
> 
> Tim Mortimer wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm new to GUI programming, & self taught at Python which is the only 
>> "real world" programming language i know - I picked it up last year to 
>> try and work with Csound to make "algorithmically assisted" 
>> compositions, & now hopefully through tkinter some basic interfacing 
>> options. (Csound is accesible via python through an api, &/or vice
>> versa...)
>> 
>> What i want to do is use the Canvas object (assumedly with a series of 
>> rectangles on it, let's say 64 or 128 or 256 being the likely number of 
>> candidates depending on the editing task..) so that i can graphically 
>> edit the contents of function tables in csound.
>> 
>> The rectangles on the canvas will simply be lenghtened or shortened in 
>> the vertical direction, & all sit one next to the other (so it looks 
>> like the interface from an EQ on a stereo, or a "skyline" type 
>> appearance...maybe coloured rectangles will identify every 8 or 10 or 12 
>> index values or something...
>> 
>> But i've got no experience of this, have run some very simple examples 
>> illustrating some basic tkinter behaviour ("hello world" that type of 
>> thing...) - but surely there is something around showing some simple 
>> canvas operations so i can start hacking it & getting this started, & 
>> learning something about tkinter in the process??
>> 
>> Does anyone know or have an implementation of this type of thing in 
>> tkinter, or alternately some simple & pedagogically useful examples of 
>> basic canvas & user interfacing types of operations? (resizing boxes on 
>> a canvas with the mouse & reporting values being the general idea...)
>> 
>> many thanks
>> 
>> Tim
> 
> 
> Tim,
> 
> The is a tk canvas drag items example in the Python source code I
> think... lemme see
> 
> Python25/Python-2.5/Demo/tkinter/matt/canvas-moving-w-mouse.py
> 
> in fact there are a few, so first grab a tar ball of the source code and
> take a look....
> 
> While I like the canvas as much as the next guy, have you thought about 
> using a 'normal' slider widget? (AKA Tkinter.Scale) these can even be 
> put onto a Canvas (via a canvas window item)
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin.
> 
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