Re: [Tutor] tkinter message & button questions

2011-11-30 Thread Alan Gauld
On 30/11/11 14:32, Cranky Frankie wrote: The syntax you used, like "root.geometry("400x100")", I have not seen before, and I've done a lot of searching. Again, much of the tkinter stuff I see seems to be based on Python 2.6. If there is a definitive book or reference on using tkinter in Python 3

Re: [Tutor] tkinter message & button questions

2011-11-30 Thread Peter Otten
Cranky Frankie wrote: > Peter thanks again. The msg_widget is still resizing vertically > depending on the lenght of the quote, but at least now the horizontal > sizing is staying the same. Ideally the msg_widget would be the *same > size*, no matter what the quote length is, but since this progra

Re: [Tutor] tkinter message & button questions

2011-11-30 Thread Wayne Werner
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Cranky Frankie wrote: > Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Peter thanks again. The msg_widget is still resizing vertically > depending on the lenght of the quote, but at least now the horizontal > sizing is staying the same. Ideally the msg_widget would be the

Re: [Tutor] tkinter message & button questions

2011-11-29 Thread Peter Otten
Cranky Frankie wrote: > I changed the quote program to use the grid manager: > > http://www.pastie.org/2939778 > > Still, the message widget box keeps resizing based on the length of > the quote. I'm thinking it has to be something to do with the message > widget itself, not the pack vs. grid ma

Re: [Tutor] tkinter message & button questions

2011-11-28 Thread Peter Otten
Cranky Frankie wrote: > I have a program I'm testing in Python 3.1 in Windows XP using tkinker > to dispay random quotes. It works except for two things. > > 1) The program displays a random quote of the day when it's invoked, > but I want to have a "Next quote" button so that additional random >