[Pythoncard-users] about dialog contest called off due to lack of interest

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

No About dialogs were submitted and there wasn't any feedback on the 
contest so I'll assume apathy on this particular subject. I probably 
need to wait until the next version of wxPython is released before 
putting out release 0.8, so I could extend the deadline if anyone 
cares. Go ahead and email directly if you have any interest, otherwise 
I'll put together a simple About dialog myself later this week.

Now I'm unsure whether we should bother having a PythonCard logo 
contest. Is there more interest in doing a logo?

ka

On May 3, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Kevin Altis wrote:

> Just a reminder that the contest ends this Sunday. If you're going to 
> submit something, don't wait until the last minute :)
>
> ka
>
> On Apr 22, 2004, at 1:17 PM, Kevin Altis wrote:
>
>> In release 0.8 the PythonCard About dialog has been moved from 
>> debug.py to its own module so that it can be more easily used by any 
>> PythonCard app. You can look at the code in cvs.
>>
>> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pythoncard/PythonCard/about.py
>>
>> Right now it is the same simplistic ScrolledMessageDialog that it 
>> used to be. However, I thought it would be fun to have a contest for 
>> the PythonCard About dialog so I'm accepting submissions for the 
>> About dialog that we'll use in release 0.8 and above. Submissions 
>> will be accepted from now through Sunday, May 9th, which gives you 
>> just over two weeks.
>>
>> Submissions will then be voted on and in case of a tie, I will have 
>> the deciding vote. While the winner will become the standard 
>> PythonCard About dialog, at least a few of the runners up will 
>> probably be included in the about.py module so they are also 
>> available. If all of the submissions are great, we'll include them 
>> all :)
>>
>> The rule set below seems overly long, but I want to be as clear as 
>> possible.
>>
>> Rules (these may be modified if needed)
>> * The information displayed should be in English. We may provide 
>> alternate language versions of the dialog in the future, but for the 
>> purposes of selecting a winner, everyone should use English for their 
>> submissions.
>> * You can use raw wxPython capabilities if needed.
>> * The dialog must work on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It is okay to 
>> use alternative layouts and capabilities for each platform, but I 
>> don't want to encourage the use of a dialog that only looks good on 
>> one platform. For example, using some fancy Flash on Windows might 
>> not be acceptable.
>> * The About dialog should be a CustomDialog subclass. See the various 
>> samples for examples: dbBrowser, dialogs, jabberChat, pysshed, 
>> codeEditor, templates.dialogs.findDialog, codeEditor, resourceEditor. 
>> You will probably want to use the resourceEditor to create your 
>> dialog.
>> * You should supply a function wrapper, again see the samples for 
>> examples of how to do this. The function def should be:
>>
>> def aboutPythonCardDialog(parent=None):
>>
>> * While your design and code will be given attribution in the 
>> about.py module, it may not carry with it any license. This will be a 
>> fundamental part of PythonCard, so it will use the BSD style license 
>> we've already adopted.
>> * You may not use any artwork, images, other media, or source that 
>> you don't own the rights to.
>> * There should be some space for a PythonCard logo, at least 100 x 50 
>> pixels. The logo will be a separate contest, but feel free to create 
>> your own as a placeholder.
>> * The dialog should be no larger than 600 x 400 so it fits on all 
>> displays.
>> * There should be a hypertext link to http://www.pythoncard.org/. Use 
>> the Python webbrowser module to launch the web page. The link can be 
>> a button, Image, ImageButton, StaticText with mouseDown handler, etc.
>> * At least a minimum set of debug system info should be displayed 
>> similar to the current About dialog: version info for PythonCard, 
>> wxPython, Python, and the operating system platform. There is no need 
>> to include PyCrust. If the information is not selectable and copyable 
>> to the clipboard, then a button should be provided to put the 
>> information in the clipboard.
>> * You do not need to display all the info in the current About 
>> dialog, even the one-line PythonCard description is optional, but 
>> there should be something that says what PythonCard is.
>>
>> Additional guidelines:
>> * The submission should be sent to the mailing list as a zip of all 
>> the required files or as a URL to the source so that everyone can try 
>> the dialog out. If you have questions before you make a final 
>> submissiion, you can send the dialog and questions to me 
>> <al...@se...>.
>> * It is okay to use release 0.7.3.1 or 0.8 naming conventions. All 
>> entries included in about.py be converted to the 0.8 API if needed.
>> * You can request feedback from the list and modify your design up 
>> until the deadline, but if you do so, I suggest maintaining the 
>> source on your own site rather than sending zipped revisions 
>> continually to the mailing list. If you don't have a site for 
>> storage, it can probably be hosted on pythoncard.sf.net.
>>
>> Hopefully, that gives everyone enough freedom to create something 
>> that looks great. If any of the guidelines above are unclear or you 
>> think we should have different requirements, feel free to reply.
>>
>> ka