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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:42:48 +0100
Subject: Re: My gui
From: Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
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On 24 April 2013 18:53, Chris =E2=80=9CKwpolska=E2=80=9D Warrick <kwpolska@=
gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Daniel Kersgaard
> <danielkersgaard@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Today, being the last day of lectures at school, my instructor ran brief=
ly through Tkninter and GUIs. I'd been looking forward to this particular l=
esson all semester, but when I got home and copied a sample program from my=
 textbook verbatim, IDLE does nothing. No error, no nothing. Any ideas? Her=
e  is the code from my program. I'm not sure if this is appropriate, but su=
ggestions are helpful.
>>
>> import tkinter
>> import tkinter.messagebox
>>
>> class MyGui:
>>     def _init_(self):
>>         self.main_window =3D tkinter.Tk()
>>
>>         self.top_frame =3D tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)
>>         self.bottom_frame =3D tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)
>>
>>         self.prompt_label =3D tkinter.Label(self.top_frame, text =3D 'En=
ter a distance in Kilometers: ')
>>         self.kilo_entry =3D tkinter.Entry(self.top_frame, width =3D 10)
>>
>>         self.prompt_label.pack(side =3D 'left')
>>         self.kilo_entry.pack(side =3D 'left')
>>
>>         self.calc_button =3D tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text =3D =
'Convert', command =3D self.convert)
>>
>>         self.quit_button =3D tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text =3D =
'Quit', command =3D self.main_window.destroy)
>>
>>         self.calc_button.pack(side =3D 'left')
>>         self.quit_button.pack(side =3D 'left')
>>
>>         self.top_frame.pack()
>>         self.bottom_frame.pack()
>>
>>         tkinter.mainloop()
>>
>>     def convert(self):
>>         kilo =3D float(self.kilo_entry.get())
>>
>>         miles =3D kilo * 0.6214
>>
>>         tkinter.messagebox.showinfo('Result', str(kilo) + ' kilometers i=
s equal to ' + str(miles) + 'miles.')
>>
>> poop =3D MyGui()
>>
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
> poop?  Seriously?  You aren=E2=80=99t serious about that copying, right?
>
> Your code seems to be missing a lot of important stuff.  You don=E2=80=99=
t
> inherit from tkinter.Frame.  Compare your program to the sample =E2=80=9C=
Hello
> world!=E2=80=9D program:

His class is not a frame, it's just a container for the tkinter code.
It's a bit unusual but it looks correct to me (apart from the single
underscores in __init__() as spotted by Ned Batchelder).

--=20
Arnaud