Re: [Pythoncard-users] Passing params before calling app.MailLoop()

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

On Nov 11, 2004, at 12:27 PM, Arsalan Zaidi wrote:

>
> First up, PythonCard is great! Can't wait for version 1.0 :-)
>
> Now to the problem. I want to call a function in class derived from
> model.Background before I call the model.Pythoncrd mainloop. Something
> like this...
>
> app = model.PythonCardApp(Mail.Mail, aFileName='Mail.rsrc.py')
> Mail.Mail.foo(self.emailaddr, self.passwd, self.clientVer)
> app.MainLoop()
>
> Is something like this possible? Is there anyway to pass parameters etc
> to the obj contructed by model.PythonCardApp from Mail.Mail?

In general, you can't do much with wxPython or PythonCard until the 
MainLoop() has been started, so you would want to do your 
initialization in the on_initialize event handler instead.

However, if you do want to access the main background, you would need 
to do it like so:

app.backgrounds[0].foo(emailaddr, passwd, clientVer)

Obviously you would need to initialize emailaddr, passwd, and clientVer 
before calling foo.

Since PythonCard doesn't really take advantage of using multiple 
backgrounds, the current list structure is overkill, so backgrounds[0] 
type of references will probably be changed to just background in the 
next release or two.

> And before I sign off, a wishlist for 1.0
>
> 1. Wizards (http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/PythonCard/)
> 2. Toolbars
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --Arsalan

Wizards and toolbars would be nice. I won't be doing much coding this 
month though, so it will be a while before I take a look at your wizard 
code. Andy Todd started an implementation for a simple Toolbar class 
once, but I'm not sure how far he took it. It should be possible to do 
an implementation similar to the PythonCard StatusBar class so that 
there is a default one you can get easily and if you need a complex 
ToolBar you could roll your own class and do whatever you want in pure 
wxPython.

ka