Is pwm Python MegaWidgets viable?

[Paul Watson]

Does pwm run well on Python 2.4? The last release appears to be in
2003. The Manning discussion forum is dead.

Is there a better path to learning and producing tkInter apps?

Has there been any discussion of wxPython becoming part of the base
Python distro? A requirement here is to not require download/install of
anything other than the Python release.

[gregarican]

Paul Watson wrote:

Does pwm run well on Python 2.4? The last release appears to be in
2003. The Manning discussion forum is dead.

Is there a better path to learning and producing tkInter apps?
Has there been any discussion of wxPython becoming part of the base
Python distro? A requirement here is to not require download/install of
anything other than the Python release.

I can't vouch for Python 2.4, but I used the PMW library pretty
extensively for an app that is based on Python 2.3. Tkinker itself
offers most of the basic widgets that any Tk implementation does, and
there's an online guide (can't recall the URL right now) to Tkinter
that is great for an introduction tutorial. PMW is an add-on to Tkinter
that is useful if there are specific widgets that you need that basic
Tkinter doesn't provide and you don't feel like creating them from
scratch. Just because it doesn't have a new release in the past couple
of years doesn't mean that it's truly a dead project. Perhaps it's
stabilized and there haven't been overwhelming requests for adding any
new items to it. Using PMW won't help you learn Tkinter any quicker in
any event. Just icing on the cake :-)

[Paul Watson]

gregarican wrote:

Paul Watson wrote:

Does pwm run well on Python 2.4? The last release appears to be in
2003. The Manning discussion forum is dead.

Is there a better path to learning and producing tkInter apps?
Has there been any discussion of wxPython becoming part of the base
Python distro? A requirement here is to not require download/install of
anything other than the Python release.

I can't vouch for Python 2.4, but I used the PMW library pretty
extensively for an app that is based on Python 2.3. Tkinker itself
offers most of the basic widgets that any Tk implementation does, and
there's an online guide (can't recall the URL right now) to Tkinter
that is great for an introduction tutorial. PMW is an add-on to Tkinter
that is useful if there are specific widgets that you need that basic
Tkinter doesn't provide and you don't feel like creating them from
scratch. Just because it doesn't have a new release in the past couple
of years doesn't mean that it's truly a dead project. Perhaps it's
stabilized and there haven't been overwhelming requests for adding any
new items to it. Using PMW won't help you learn Tkinter any quicker in
any event. Just icing on the cake :-)

Many thanks for your reply. I was setting out to make use of the
Manning book by Grayson. Perhaps I should just use online tutorial and
such for learning plain-old tk first. However, I have heard good things
about the book. Just trying to use what was already at hand.

[gregarican]

Paul Watson wrote:

Many thanks for your reply. I was setting out to make use of the
Manning book by Grayson. Perhaps I should just use online tutorial and
such for learning plain-old tk first. However, I have heard good things
about the book. Just trying to use what was already at hand.

Here's the online tutorial that provides a basic introduction to
Tkinter --> http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/. I
found it handy. I had used Tk implementations in other languages such
as Ruby so I had already become familiar with the overall Tk toolkit,
but nevertheless the online Tkinter tutorial was refreshing. Wasn't
aware of the Manning book but it sounds like a great resource as well!

[James Stroud]

Paul Watson wrote:

gregarican wrote:

Paul Watson wrote:

Does pwm run well on Python 2.4? The last release appears to be in
2003. The Manning discussion forum is dead.

Is there a better path to learning and producing tkInter apps?
Has there been any discussion of wxPython becoming part of the base
Python distro? A requirement here is to not require download/install of
anything other than the Python release.

I can't vouch for Python 2.4, but I used the PMW library pretty
extensively for an app that is based on Python 2.3. Tkinker itself
offers most of the basic widgets that any Tk implementation does, and
there's an online guide (can't recall the URL right now) to Tkinter
that is great for an introduction tutorial. PMW is an add-on to Tkinter
that is useful if there are specific widgets that you need that basic
Tkinter doesn't provide and you don't feel like creating them from
scratch. Just because it doesn't have a new release in the past couple
of years doesn't mean that it's truly a dead project. Perhaps it's
stabilized and there haven't been overwhelming requests for adding any
new items to it. Using PMW won't help you learn Tkinter any quicker in
any event. Just icing on the cake :-)

Many thanks for your reply. I was setting out to make use of the
Manning book by Grayson. Perhaps I should just use online tutorial and
such for learning plain-old tk first. However, I have heard good things
about the book. Just trying to use what was already at hand.

If you want to write full-featured GUI apps with Tkinter, Grayson is
your best bet. Lundh's tutorial is excellent as a reference, but, last I
checked, was not as extensive as Grayson in terms of teaching new users.

Also, PMW is relatively heavy-weight, so make sure the Python standard
library doesn't already do what you want before including PMW (e.g.
ScrolledText, etc.).

James

--
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com/