Description

This package contains a number of modules which do not have an obvious home in an existing sibling package, or have been kept separate deliberately.

Main package (solentware_misc).

workarounds subpackage.

• dialogues.py - wrappers for messagebox and filedialog functions.

• workarounds.py - workarounds for problems met in Tkinter functions.

core subpackage.

• callthreadqueue.py - run methods from a queue in a thread.

• configuration.py - access and update configuration file items.

• getconfigurationitem.py - get item from configuration file.

• null.py - Null object from Python Cookbook.

• utilities.py - Some name and date methods.

gui subpackage.

• colourslider.py - widget for choosing colours.

• configuredialogue.py - widgets for editing configuration files.

• dialogue.py - widgets for dialogues and reports.

• fontchooser.py - widget for selecting fonts.

• frame.py - customised Tkinter.Frame widget for notebook style GUI.

• help.py - create widgets to display help files.

• logpanel.py - widgets for displaying task logs.

• logtextbase.py - widgets for displaying background task logs.

• panel.py - customised Tkinter.Frame widget for notebook style GUI.

• reports.py - customised Tkinter.Toplevel for reports and dialogues.

• startstop.py - functions for application start, stop, and exceptions.

• tasklog.py - run task in thread and report progress.

• textentry.py - customised Tkinter.Text widget.

• textreadonly.py - customised Tkinter.Text widget.

• texttab.py - customised Tkinter.Text widget.

• threadqueue.py - add api.callthreadqueue to gui.frame.

Installation Instructions

This package is available on PyPI so can be installed by typing

python -m pip install –user solentware-misc

at the command prompt.

See Python and pip documentation for alternatives and platform-specific points.

Notes

The frame, panel, logpanel,and threadqueue, modules are obsolete given the addition of ttk:notebook to tk after Tk8.4 and access via tkinter.