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Hi, I was wondering how someone would go about making a scrolling ticker or marquee using Tkinter in such a way that allows you to easily add on text and remove.. kinda like a news scroller on the bottom of the tv? thanks all a1eio

Hi, I'm wondering how your supposed to find out a widget's width in tkinter.. Little example code to explain (doesnt do anything at all) [code=python] class CustomWidget(Tkinter.Frame): def __init__(self, master, **kw): apply(Tkinter.Frame.__init__, (self, master), kw) self.masterWidth = # ???? Totally stuck, tried obvious things like master.width class MainWindow(Tkinter.Toplevel): def __init__(self, …

Hi, I'm a bit stuck on getting 1 function that's not inside any class or function, accessible or callable to everyother part of the program, from within classes and the Main function.. i've tried to make it global but i'm not sure on how to make it work and it …

Hi, I'm trying to create 6 buttons in a for loop using tkinter, each button's command points at the same function, but passes a variable (the loop counter.. in this case i) now for some reason.. when i run it, and click on each button, the function is supposed to …

Hi, I'm trying to pin an image to a button, using the 'image' option. I've looked about on the net and it seems the best way to do it is to create the image in a PhotoImage object. I've done this and then stuck it onto the button but for …

Hi, I want to create a little Frame class that has two labels built in, the code snippet below is the class. [CODE=python] class DescriptionFrame(Frame): def __init__(self, master, title="", text=""): Frame.__init__(master) self.title = title self.text = text self.titleLabel = Label(self, text=self.title, font=("Times", 12, "underline"), fg="darkred") self.titleLabel.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky=W) self.mainLabel = …

hi, i'd like to create something that basically grabbes information from websites, however i havn't any experience in urllib (apart from very basic page reading) and the issue is that the page i want to grab data from checks to see if another page is connected to it or perhaps …

I'm trying to use the google/python api, but i keep getting this error thrown at me: HTTPError: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy service is denied. I also get this error when trying to use …

Hi, I've got a small program, that would be really useful if it could stay on top of other windows programs, i don't think there is a method for that in Tkinter, if anyone has any experience or ideas on this topic, please let me know thanks

i don't understand the use of the os.popen function, i've used it to read things, for example: [CODE] >>> a = os.popen("netstat") >>> for line in a.readlines(): print line Active Connections >>> [/CODE] i understand that, but there is also a buffersize and a write ability, but i've played about …

How do i access or call system commands (can't really think of a better thing to call em???) for example on explorer you can right click on an object and select eject, or format ect ect (mainly eject is what i want to know about) any help would be greatly …

I want to read everything from a file using python. the one problem i am having (note: EVERYTHING from a file) is that python is returning an EOFError when i know that it's not the end of the file, is there any way to just read the damn thing till …