[Tkinter-discuss] touch screens

[wet_colored)arch]

Can anyone point me to information on how to use or extend tkinter for use
with touch screens? I have an application written in Tkinter that works
fine, and I am newbie enough to GUIs that I don't know Qt or other. Is
there an extension or something native in Tkinter I can use? What do you
recommend I do if there is nothing in Tkinter.

[Bob Greschke]

We played with a touch screen display for a little while (entuative touchscreen elo monitor - no one can spell anything that makes sense anymore) and the driver for it (Windows anyway) handled all of the dirty work. If there was a simple tkinter button on the display, and you "touched" it tkinter just reacted as if you'd used the mouse to click on it. You didn't have to worry about the X,Y of where the user touched or anything like that. We didn't end up using it for anything. It was more trouble than it was worth for the operators. They needed to not just click on buttons, but type in stuff and drag over a Listbox of stuff, etc. on a routine basis. It would have been fine for something like a kiosk for mostly clicking on buttons.

Bob

Post by wet_colored)arch
Can anyone point me to information on how to use or extend tkinter for use
with touch screens? I have an application written in Tkinter that works
fine, and I am newbie enough to GUIs that I don't know Qt or other. Is
there an extension or something native in Tkinter I can use? What do you
recommend I do if there is nothing in Tkinter.
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[Michael O'Donnell]

Hi,

I was looking at porting my python-tk application to the iPad.
Applications need to be in Objective C. While Objective C can handle
python via pyObjC, this cannot handle tkinter, and basically one
would need to rewrite your GUI components in the machine's graphic language.

Mick

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:44 PM, wet_colored)arch

Post by wet_colored)arch
Can anyone point me to information on how to use or extend tkinter for use
with touch screens? ?I have an application written in Tkinter that works
fine, and I am newbie enough to GUIs that I don't know Qt or other. ?Is
there an extension or something native in Tkinter I can use? ?What do you
recommend I do if there is nothing in Tkinter.
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[Kevin Walzer]

Post by Michael O'Donnell
Hi,
I was looking at porting my python-tk application to the iPad.
Applications need to be in Objective C. While Objective C can handle
python via pyObjC, this cannot handle tkinter, and basically one
would need to rewrite your GUI components in the machine's graphic language.
Mick

PyObjC isn't supported on the iPad or iPhone: C-level languages only.

[Michael O'Donnell]

Hi Kevin,

I have not tried porting python to iphones myself,
but there are a number of websites saying they have done
it (assuming a jailbroken iphone), e.g.,

http://www.saurik.com/id/5
http://gizmodo.com/282139/iphone-can-now-serve-web-pages-run-python-open-source-apps

http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/851129-python-iphone-actually-rather-good

...and if doable on an iphone, I assume iPad as well.

Mick

Post by Kevin Walzer

Hi,
? ?I was looking at porting my python-tk application to the iPad.
Applications need to be in Objective C. While Objective C can handle
python via pyObjC, this cannot handle tkinter, and basically one
would need to rewrite your GUI components in the machine's graphic language.
Mick

PyObjC isn't supported on the iPad or iPhone: C-level languages only.
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[Kevin Walzer]

Post by Michael O'Donnell
Hi Kevin,
I have not tried porting python to iphones myself,
but there are a number of websites saying they have done
it (assuming a jailbroken iphone), e.g.,
http://www.saurik.com/id/5
http://gizmodo.com/282139/iphone-can-now-serve-web-pages-run-python-open-source-apps
http://youtu.be/iFrzSDdTXkk
http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/851129-python-iphone-actually-rather-good
...and if doable on an iphone, I assume iPad as well.
Mick

Fair enough, but I wasn't considering jailbroken hardware. :-)