[Tutor] Learning Tkinter

[Ike Hall]

Hi Terry,

There was an online doc called something like "Programming in Tkinter" that
is on the website of the University of New Mexico Tech.  I dont remember the
URL to it, and Im a little too busy to go searching for it, but doing a
google search on Tkinter and New Mexico Tech might bring it up....I found
this one to be one of the best docs for simply explaining what does what for
quick refrence when coding.

Ike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Carroll" <carroll@tjc.com>
To: <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:33 PM
Subject: [Tutor] Learning Tkinter


> I'm just starting to play with Tkinter, and it's (as expected), a bit
> alien to me.  Any tips on how to learn it?
>
> It strikes me that Tkinter is probably pretty easy and intuitive to
> someone who already knows Tcl/Tk, but I don't.  I don't really want to
> learn Tcl.
>
> I've found what appears to be the only book dedicated to Tk under Python
> (John Grayson's "Python & Tkinter Programming"), and that looks like
> overkill for me.  I just want to add some straightforward GUI stuff[1] to
> an existing program to make it more usable.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Fred Lundh's "An Introduction To Tkinter"[2] looks good, and I'd buy it in
> a heartbeat if it were a published book.
>
> Anyone have any opinions on Wesley Chun's "Core Python Programming"?  It
> has a chapter on "GUI Programing with Tkinter," but only about 20 pages.
>
>
>
> [1] Well, not too straightfoward; it will involve output of Chinese
> characters in Unicode and input in Unicode, GB and Big5 encodings.
> Currently I'm doing the "I/O" by altering the Python source and
> hard-coding hex strings.
>
> [2] http://www.pythonware.com/library/index.htm
>
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