Re: [Tutor] Weird tkFont behavior

2011-06-17 Thread Alan Gauld
"Steve Willoughby" wrote I've been getting happier to see the improvements to what you can do with just plain Tkinter since the last time I used it seriously. I agree, Tkinter still gets a lot of bad feedback about its look but with ttk that's no longer justified. wxPython still has the edg

Re: [Tutor] Weird tkFont behavior

2011-06-17 Thread Steve Willoughby
On 17-Jun-11 14:18, Alan Gauld wrote: But I confess I've never used font tags (and didn't even know they existed). Neither did I until now. I had been playing with WxPython previously (which is still a great toolkit I'd recommend when it makes sense), but I've been getting happier to see the

Re: [Tutor] Weird tkFont behavior

2011-06-17 Thread Alan Gauld
"Steve Willoughby" wrote I think I solved it, actually.. as I was typing this up, I wondered in passing about this: of the other fonts I configured for the other tags. Do I need to keep other references to the tkFont objects somewhere else or something? I was going to suggest trying tha

Re: [Tutor] Weird tkFont behavior

2011-06-16 Thread Steve Willoughby
On 16-Jun-11 09:52, Steve Willoughby wrote: I'm probably just doing something stupid, but I can't spot the error. I hope someone here can see what I'm looking past, or knows of a known issue with these widgets. I think I solved it, actually.. as I was typing this up, I wondered in passing abou

[Tutor] Weird tkFont behavior

2011-06-16 Thread Steve Willoughby
I'm probably just doing something stupid, but I can't spot the error. I hope someone here can see what I'm looking past, or knows of a known issue with these widgets. I'm writing a GUI app using ttk widgets in Tkinter, which includes text displayed in a regular text widget. Some text in the