[Tutor] How to install Pmw for python Tkinter programming

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> I am just learning Tkinter programming. I came across some 
> book wich is using Pmw. 

PMW is an add on to Tkinter that you can download and install.
See the Tkinter section of the Python web site for links.

> another question is book is telling me that there is extensive
> documentation. From where I could get this.

Well, assuming its Graysons book that pretty extensive in 
its own right! However the Tkinter section of the web site 
has lots of other links. Fred Lundh's tutor and reference 
are both pretty good - he keeps threatening to bring them 
out as a book but it hasn't happened yet....

Also, once you get the hang of the conversion there are 
several books on native Tk which translate easily to Tkinter
(eg. I use Tcl/Tk in a nutshell from O'Reilly as my main 
resource for Tkinter programming)

However saying that Tkinter is well documented is only 
relative to other Python GUI toolkits - pyGTK, Qt, wxPython
etc. If somebody wrote a really good book on either wxPython
(even wxWindows!) or pyGTK I might consider moving to those. 

But Tkinter does most of what I need in Python GUI programming
so I'll stick with it for now.

Alan G