Re: [Boa Constr] New version in CVS

[Christian T. <ti...@ti...>]

Riaan Booysen wrote:
...

> Oops, I meant to say, I would not use the Designer for a notebook
> with 20 pages either. Reparenting is a good solution here.

Yes, I understood it already.

This was the early stage in my learning curve.
I wanted to use tabs to have a nice undo interface,
but I realized early that is impossible to have
control ofver the tab size. I wanted them to the left,
but large, with horizontal text.
After I found that this isn't doable, I wrote my own
set of container windows and switched to the reparent
idea.
It appears that wxWindows has accumulated a lot of stuff
over the years, which would better be left out and made
flexible by scripting. Building a nice tabbed notebook
in a custom defined style is something what I no longer
fear to do with Boa and Python, especially with your
outlined enhancements on the horizon.

After heavy, heavy startup problems, I'm now at the
break-even point, where I begin to become more
productive than with Delphi. (And I used Delphi for
many years, in hairy contexts like Netscape plugins).

Everything is changing. wxPython with Boa and Stackless
is going to be a killer app.

I'm writing a wizard to Imagic software, which is used
for editing image sequences of microscope pictures.
These are series of images, taken from incremental
changing angles, and the software creates a 3-D image
sequence form that.
The wizard shows the initial data in a movie window,
which displays the movie all the time, as a tasklet.
The user can select images in a different window,
change parameters, select area of interest, coarse
factors, filters and so on.
When he proceeds in the wizard and has made selections,
modified image sequences are computed in the background.
Not only that, the already computed part is again
visible as a movie, which just shows the already
available data.
All these and some more jobs are running in parallel,
very smoothly, always able to be stopped or reverted.

Sorry, I'm blathering. It has become so much fun,
after I'm behind the largest hurdles.

Heehee, and the whole crap is at the moment below
5000 lines, all included.
I use Boa and wxPython of course, the PIL for the
raw imaging stuff, Numeric for operations like
filtering and cross-correlations, and Stackless
for parallelism.

enough for now - later - chris

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