Re: [Tutor] Displaying Pictures & Text

2010-11-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Patty" wrote Thanks for the explanation. I will go ahead and trying using these functions in my program. Tkinrer is quite easy once you get the hang of it. Its also a good intro to GUI frameworks in general if you ever need to move top something more advanced. There are good tutorials for

Re: [Tutor] Displaying Pictures & Text

2010-11-06 Thread Patty
Thanks for the explanation. I will go ahead and trying using these functions in my program. Patty - Original Message - From: "Alan Gauld" To: Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Displaying Pictures & Text "Patty" wrote I

Re: [Tutor] Displaying Pictures & Text

2010-11-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Patty" wrote I thought I wouldn't need Tkinter. I thought Tkinter is yet another addon library Tkinter is the standfard GUI toolkit for Python and as such comes as part of the standard library. (Although you do have to compile Python with that option enabled in some Linux distros)

Re: [Tutor] Displaying Pictures & Text

2010-11-06 Thread Patty
ssage - From: Wayne Werner To: Patty Cc: tutor@python.org Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Displaying Pictures & Text On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Patty wrote: Hi Alan - I tried using ImageTk from the PIL library to display jpegs (and

Re: [Tutor] Displaying Pictures & Text

2010-11-06 Thread Wayne Werner
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Patty wrote: > Hi Alan - > > I tried using ImageTk from the PIL library to display jpegs (and hopefully > any picture type) instead of just gif as you suggested below. I read > online that these these types of programs should > be run from executables not in th

[Tutor] Displaying Pictures & Text

2010-11-05 Thread Patty
Hi Alan - I tried using ImageTk from the PIL library to display jpegs (and hopefully any picture type) instead of just gif as you suggested below. I read online that these these types of programs should be run from executables not in the interpreter but it crashes and I can't read the error