[Pythoncard-users] FW: more details on PythonCard question

[David L. <wh...@oz...>]

Hi Ken;

Yes, it was me. I got some sort of mail from the sourceforge bug tracker
with my bug in it and I did use my email address to submit the bug so I
don't know why you didn't see it.

First things first:

Python 2.1
PyCard 0.43
NT 4.0 sp6 Workstation

My primary problem is not understanding exactly how to set up PyCard (sorry,
but that's easier then "PythonCard") so that I can run all the samples.

I installed PyCard under my Python21 directory and all the samples i've
tried do work more or less (get to that in a minute) except that I don't see
how to get the turtle example to run any of it's scrpts. (.txt files).
running (for example) "python wxturtlechaos.py" causes nothing to happen -
no errors, nothing at all. (Later: AH! python test_turtle.py!! I ran this
before but I guess I was focused on the shell and not the app window - got
the scripts running - wow!)

The only real glitches i've noted so far is that buttons and text tend to be
scrunched, especially noticable on the DbBrowser sample. (Speaking of the
DbBrowser sample, it works at times and at other times does not. It also
does not deal well with mysql not running when it's started - croaks.)

All the samples report memory leaks, but that's probably not news in a
prototype running samples. Here is a sample from running test_turtle.py:

20:33:20: There were memory leaks.
20:33:20: ----- Memory dump -----
20:33:20: wxFont at $1321AC8, size 12
20:33:20: wxClientDC at $13685B8, size 280
20:33:20: wxPen at $136BBC8, size 12
20:33:20: wxPen at $136DB28, size 12
20:33:20:
20:33:20:
20:33:20: ----- Memory statistics -----
20:33:20: 2 objects of class wxPen, total size 24
20:33:20: 1 objects of class wxClientDC, total size 280
20:33:20: 1 objects of class wxFont, total size 12
20:33:20:
20:33:20: Number of object items: 4
20:33:20: Number of non-object items: 0
20:33:20: Total allocated size: 316

I don't know how much time i'll have to spend on this, but I have been a
hypercard afficiando for a long time and have some documents from back then,
including an old HC 1.0 user's manual, some of the Danny Goodman HC 2.1
books, a book for a PC clone called Supercard, as well as my prize: "The
Hypercard Book" (or something like that) from Apple that describes the event
hierarchy and other internal tidbits about HC.

Dave LeBlanc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Altis [mailto:al...@se...]
> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 4:15 PM
> To: wh...@oz...
> Subject: more details on PythonCard question
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm hoping you're the same Dave LeBlanc that posted this bug report at SF:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=455220&gr
> oup_id=190
> 15&atid=119015
>
> I looked on comp.lang.python since there wasn't an email address
> associated
> with the post.
>
> Anyway, I would like to answer your questions. If you could join
> the mailing
> list and post there that would be great. I need a little more detail about
> what problems you were having in order to answer your question.
>
> The mailing list is at:
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pythoncard-users
> Please make sure you have the latest release, 0.4.3
>
> Thanks,
>
> ka
> ---
> Kevin Altis
> al...@se...
>