From: Kevin A. <al...@se...> - 2005-04-25 16:02:35
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Many thanks to Alex for filling in for me! The ACCU slides were almost identical to my Pycon presentation and the same sample application, the mortgage calculator, in the samples/financial folder were used for the demo. http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/papers/42/PythonCard_Pycon_2005.pdf ka On Apr 24, 2005, at 3:39 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > I was very lucky this last week to be able to attend the ACCU > conference in Oxford, England. Kevin had been scheduled to give his > talk on "Keeping it simple with Pythoncard" there, but was unable to > attend, so I went in his place. > > It's really great to be able to give and talk when all the hard work > (i.e. the preparation and writing the slides) has been done by someone > else :-) The talk was a brief overview of Pythoncard, followed by a > demo of building a simple app from scratch. While it was a simple app, > it did demonstrate a variety of features, including component > placement and editing, 'auto' event binding, menu building, using > "command" instead of select in menus, dialogs, etc. > > ACCU *used* to stand for the "Association of C and C++ Users" - I > guess officially it still does, but in practice it has expanded to > cover a number of other languages, and is essentially an organization, > and conference, for professional developers. There were as many Java > sessions as there were C++ ones, and there was a separate Python > track. I believe the slides etc. will be available shortly, and once > they are I'll send another note to this list to let you know where to > find them. > > There were a couple of other presentations on GUI systems for Python > (using wxPython directly, and PyQt). Net result is I have come back > with a re-invigorated set of ideas on what I'd like to see in > Pythoncard, specifically in the Resource Editor to make it easier and > faster to use, so I'll post those shortly. > > -- > Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net |