Re: [Boa Constr] New version in CVS

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hello Christian,

Christian Tismer wrote:

> After heavy, heavy startup problems, I'm now at the
> break-even point, where I begin to become more
> productive than with Delphi. 

Welcome to this nice place ;)

> (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.

Absolutely!!

> 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

Thanks for all the info, it sounds very cool!

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Cheers,
Riaan.