[Pythoncard-users] Odd behaviors of Pythoncard under Ubuntu: errors on exit, StaticText over BitmapCanvas, multiple item move

[Morgan V. <ve...@gm...>]

Hi all,

Item 1:
I'm having a hard time getting PythonCard to run cleanly on my Ubuntu
machine, seeing some peculiar errors that keep my program from
terminating properly on exit.  Things generally work okay (the
resourceEditor is a disaster area, but I've managed to get what I need
done) but exiting any app spits out a bunch of errors like the
following:

[from exit of Minimal.py:]

me@mylocalhost:~/somepath/$ python minimal.py

(python:29257): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.16.6/gobject/gsignal.c:1741: instance
`0x165c380' has no handler with id `224'

(python:29257): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.16.6/gobject/gsignal.c:1741: instance
`0x139f510' has no handler with id `121'

(python:29257): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.16.6/gobject/gsignal.c:1741: instance
`0x139f030' has no handler with id `49'

In this case all I did was run Minimal.py, and exit it.
I get similar errors when I run any other PythonCard application.

My installation is... complicated.  Multiple versions of things, some
from Synaptic, others not.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.
Python 2.5 (but older versions are installed too)
PythonCard 0.8.2, installed via the setup script in the tar.gz
PythonCard 0.8.1, installed via Synaptic (installed 0.8.2 before i
realized there was a package)
libwxgtk2.6-0,  via Synaptic
libwxgtk2.8-0,  via Synaptic

I deleted the 0.8.2 version of PythonCard, but the problems persist.
Are the multiple versions of libwxgtk part of my problem here?



Item 2:
It appears to be impossible to get a StaticText widget to render in
front of a BitmapCanvas.  I need to use some bitmapcanvases to show
colored areas behind my interface.  No matter what the order of the
items is in the resource file, the static text ALWAYS renders behind
the BitmapCanvas.
Other widgets like buttons, gauges etc all render fine, according to
order in the file.

Bug or Feature?

[the semantics of "Front = behind everything" and "Back = in front of
everything" puzzle me, but whatever.]

I know I can work around it by drawing that text in the BitmapCanvas
itself, but this seems pretty wrong.


Item 3:
Is it possible to select and move multiple items together?  This
doesn't work in Ubuntu AFAICT.
Is this implemented/working on any other platforms?


Thanks!


I'm still super-stoked on how easy it's been to put together a basic
interface for this application -- I migrated my entire project from
Ruby into Python so that I could use a reasonable GUI toolkit.  Just
trying to clean up the loose ends so other people can run it and not
throw errors all over the place!

cheers

morgan