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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Getting event when clicking on menu bar

[<kc1...@ya...>]

To ka (and others):

Thanks for the answer.

Yes, event.skip() was the answer I was looking for.  

What I needed to do has something to do with
overriding the default behavior of how menuitem check
marks are done in Pythoncard (or wxPython, I guess).

What I do now is to have a handler for the gainFocus
event of the window, and in there do what I need to do
and when I am done, make a event.skip() call to pass
the event back to the underlying system.

Thanks everybody for the help.



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Re: [Pythoncard-users] But report so far - Sizers 1.1

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Winston Wolff wrote:

>Hi Alex-
>
>A while back you were working on a version of PythonCard that  
>included Sizers.  Has that work been incorporated back into the main  
>PythonCard CVS repository?  Would you recommend using your "snap 1.1"  
>version from June, or the CVS version?
>
>  
>
It hasn't been incorporated into CVS. The snapshot includes support only 
for BoxSizers, not for GridBagSizers, and until that's done it won't be 
ready for CVS.

I started adding Gridbag support, but didn't like the way it turned out, 
so have taken it out ready to try again - but as yet, I haven't found 
time to do that. I'm afraid it's going to be a while before it's done.

For now, it has to be the "snap 1.1" to get sizer support.


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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Getting event when clicking on menu bar

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

On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:09 PM, kc1...@ya... wrote:

> If that's the case, may be I can accomplish what I
> need to do by getting the gainFocus event of the main
> window.
>
> I did try that before but the problem is that if I
> capture the event by doing an on_mybgWindow_gainFocus,
> a lot of things no long works (like list objects don't
> scroll open anymore).   I am suspecting that when I
> capture the gainFocus event and do some processing, I
> need to send the same event back to the system
> somehow.  In other words, I need to "sandwich" my code
> into the event queue - rather then "robbing" the
> event.  (That's what needs to be done in other GUI
> packages I used to use).
>
> How do I do that in PythonCard?
>
> Thanks,

In general, when you want to do something not obviously supported in  
PythonCard you probably have to fall back on wxPython events. At that  
point it is time to look at the wxPython demo and wxWindows reference  
help and possibly post to the wxPython-users mailing list. It is also  
helpful to provide a description of what you're trying to accomplish,  
so nobody makes assumptions about what you need. I'm still not sure  
based on what you've posted what  exactly you want to do. Are you  
needing to update a menu or menu item when the user clicks on a menu?

Whenever you intercept an event like gainFocus, you are probably  
going to need to call event.skip() so that the underlying event  
system gets a chance to process the event as well. Also while your  
event handler is processing no other processing is going on, so  
unless you make explicit calls to force refreshes of controls don't  
expect to see any updates if you make changes. Finally, due to the  
way the underlying systems work, beware of menu bar trickery if you  
want it to work cross-platform.

ka

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Getting event when clicking on menu bar

[<kc1...@ya...>]

If that's the case, may be I can accomplish what I
need to do by getting the gainFocus event of the main
window.

I did try that before but the problem is that if I
capture the event by doing an on_mybgWindow_gainFocus,
a lot of things no long works (like list objects don't
scroll open anymore).   I am suspecting that when I
capture the gainFocus event and do some processing, I
need to send the same event back to the system
somehow.  In other words, I need to "sandwich" my code
into the event queue - rather then "robbing" the
event.  (That's what needs to be done in other GUI
packages I used to use).

How do I do that in PythonCard?

Thanks,


Alex Tweedly wrote:
> kc1...@ya... wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> No, I know how to get it when an menuItem is
clicked.
>>
>> I need it when the menu itself is clicked.
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> I don't think it is possible - certainly nothing
shows up in the MessageWatcher.
>
> It may be possible to use some wxPython facility
directly - but I didn't see anything helpful in a
quick scan through the wxPython docs.
>


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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Getting event when clicking on menu bar

[Ed L. <ed...@le...>]

On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

>> No, I know how to get it when an menuItem is clicked.
>>
>> I need it when the menu itself is clicked.
>>
>>
> I don't think it is possible - certainly nothing shows up in the
> MessageWatcher.
>
> It may be possible to use some wxPython facility directly - but I  
> didn't
> see anything helpful in a quick scan through the wxPython docs.

	Check out wx.EVT_MENU_OPEN and wx.EVT_MENU_CLOSE - they should do  
what you need, although in my experience, they are flaky in Windows.

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Re: [Pythoncard-users] But report so far - Sizers 1.1

[Winston W. <win...@st...>]

Hi Alex-

A while back you were working on a version of PythonCard that =20
included Sizers.  Has that work been incorporated back into the main =20
PythonCard CVS repository?  Would you recommend using your "snap 1.1" =20=

version from June, or the CVS version?

-Winston


On Jun 4, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Winston Wolff wrote:

> Alex-
>
> Here are my comments on the layout editor.  Also attached are some =20
> screenshots so you know what it looks like on the Mac.
> <TestingTheSizer.png>
> <SizerEditorAndProperties.png>
>
> PythonCard 1.1
> --------------
>
> Comments
> --------
> =95 It works on the MAC.  It's great.
> =95 Dragging of components in SizerEditor works very intuitively.
>
>
> Suggestions
> -----------
>
> =95 Edit Properties of the sizer is very common.  Add a button for it =20=

> in the Sizer
>   Editor.
>
> =95 Alternatively, use the existing Property Editor window instead of =20=

> a new Sizer
>   Editor window.  That will minimize window clutter.
>
> =95 Perhaps you can also put the SizerEditor into the list of =20
> components in the
>   PropertyEditor, thereby getting all the functionality into one =20
> window.
>
> =95 When you select a component in your window, it should also be =20
> selected in the tree view.
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________
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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Getting event when clicking on menu bar

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

kc1...@ya... wrote:

>Thanks for the reply.
>
>No, I know how to get it when an menuItem is clicked.
>
>I need it when the menu itself is clicked.
>
>
>  
>
I don't think it is possible - certainly nothing shows up in the 
MessageWatcher.

It may be possible to use some wxPython facility directly - but I didn't 
see anything helpful in a quick scan through the wxPython docs.

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[Pythoncard-users] Getting event when clicking on menu bar

[<kc1...@ya...>]

Thanks for the reply.

No, I know how to get it when an menuItem is clicked.

I need it when the menu itself is clicked.




kc106_2005-pythoncard@[...].com wrote:
>  Hi list,
> 
>  I am not receiving any event when clicking on the
menu
>  bar.
> 
>  Is there a way to do that?
> 
>  Thanks,
> 
>  --
> 
>  John Hen
Is this what you mean?
-Cullen Newsom

def on_doHelpAbout_command(self, event):
        self.addConsoleText("Add an About Box
Someday.")        

             {'type':'Menu',
             'name':'menuHelp',
             'label':'&Help',
             'items': [
                  {'type':'MenuItem',
                   'name':'menuHelpAbout',
                   'label':'&About ...',
                   'command':'doHelpAbout',
                  },

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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Getting event when clicking on menu bar

[Cullen N. <cn...@sa...>]

kc1...@ya... wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am not receiving any event when clicking on the menu
> bar.
>
> Is there a way to do that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>
> John Hen
Is this what you mean?
-Cullen Newsom

def on_doHelpAbout_command(self, event):
        self.addConsoleText("Add an About Box Someday.")        

             {'type':'Menu',
             'name':'menuHelp',
             'label':'&Help',
             'items': [
                  {'type':'MenuItem',
                   'name':'menuHelpAbout',
                   'label':'&About ...',
                   'command':'doHelpAbout',
                  },

[Pythoncard-users] Getting event when clicking on menu bar

[<kc1...@ya...>]

Hi list,

I am not receiving any event when clicking on the menu
bar.

Is there a way to do that?

Thanks,

--
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[Pythoncard-users] TreeControl

[Ade <sk...@bl...>]

Thanks for the info, Jussi. From your text i went through the wx
documentation for TreeControl (i hadn't even thought of thw wx stuff)

I found that the thing I was looking in my blinkered way after some
trial and error was the tree.SetPyDataItem and tree.GetPyDataItem.

This means that each node in the tree can be associated with an element
in, say, a list which is the real data I want to get returned.

I like your way by kind of recursing back to the root getting all the
text of all the branches between the node selected and the root.

Thank you very much :)

Adrian

From: Jussi Salmela <jussi.salmela@pp...>
  Re: Tree control
2006-09-17 06:12
  This is for Ade to answer the question on Sep 11, 2006

  No-one has answered your question. I don't know if it is because they
  thought you should be able to figure out yourself. After investigating
  your problem, I at least think so because it took me under a hour from
  the problem to the solution and I've never used the treecontrol nor
  looked at its demos nor the souce code nor the documentation. Here's
  what I did and what I think you should have done also:

  1. I looked at the Pythoncard treecontrol demo and its source code. The
  events handled by PythonCard are listed at the beginning of the
  minimaltree code

  2. I looked at the wxPython demo finding the treecontrol demo, running
  it and browsing its source code. I found out that the event generated by
  clicking the item text is OnSelChanged.

  3. But your original headache was how to find the path to the root. Well
  I had the third and last help item left: wxWidgets documentation. There
  I browsed the wxTreeCtrl documentation looking for something with Parent
  in it. Found GetParent with a note to use GetItemParent instead.

  4. Copied the minimaltree example to my own directory and started
  modifying and debuggin it to get what I/you wanted. Copied the
  on_tree_itemExpanding method and modified it to become (after 3-4
  iterations):

  code <snip>

  I think this is near enough the thing you wanted, isn't it?

			



   	 	



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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Resource Editor bug (?)

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

On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:25 AM, Jussi Salmela wrote:

> And the plot thickens...
>
> I've been playing a little with the multipropertyEditor changing the
> place in question to look like this:
>
<snip>

I checked in a new version of propertyEditor.py for the  
resourceEditor at:

http://pythoncard.cvs.sourceforge.net/pythoncard/PythonCard/tools/ 
resourceEditor/modules/propertyEditor.py?view=log

You can see the diffs with:

http://pythoncard.cvs.sourceforge.net/pythoncard/PythonCard/tools/ 
resourceEditor/modules/propertyEditor.py? 
view=diff&r1=text&tr1=1.57&r2=text&tr2=1.56&diff_format=h

This change may not totally solve the problem and I moved the  
discussion to pythoncard-devel for a more elaborate fix. In addition,  
Alex will need to roll these same kinds of changes into his  
multipropertyEditor. The basic idea is that attributes which are  
supposed to be strings such as command shouldn't get an eval()  
anymore, while attributes that are numbers, lists, tuples, etc.  
should be handled by eval. All attributes that are edited in a text  
field must be converted to strings before they can be displayed and  
edited by the user, so eval or an explicit conversion based on  
expected type must be done when the user is done editing.

I did very little testing of this "fix" so feedback from anyone that  
wants to try it would be appreciated.

ka

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Tree control

[Jussi S. <jus...@pp...>]

This is for Ade to answer the question on Sep 11, 2006

No-one has answered your question. I don't know if it is because they 
thought you should be able to figure out yourself. After investigating 
your problem, I at least think so because it took me under a hour from 
the problem to the solution and I've never used the treecontrol nor 
looked at its demos nor the souce code nor the documentation. Here's 
what I did and what I think you should have done also:

1. I looked at the Pythoncard treecontrol demo and its source code. The 
events handled by PythonCard are listed at the beginning of the 
minimaltree code

2. I looked at the wxPython demo finding the treecontrol demo, running 
it and browsing its source code. I found out that the event generated by 
clicking the item text is OnSelChanged.

3. But your original headache was how to find the path to the root. Well 
I had the third and last help item left: wxWidgets documentation. There 
I browsed the wxTreeCtrl documentation looking for something with Parent 
in it. Found GetParent with a note to use GetItemParent instead.

4. Copied the minimaltree example to my own directory and started 
modifying and debuggin it to get what I/you wanted. Copied the 
on_tree_itemExpanding method and modified it to become (after 3-4 
iterations):

    def on_tree_selectionChanged(self, event):
        tree = self.components.tree
        item=event.item
        #obj = int(tree.getItemText(item))
        #print 'selChanged', obj
        if item != self.root:
            listToRoot = []
            while item:
                listToRoot.append(tree.getItemText(item))
                item = tree.GetItemParent(item)
                #print item
            listToRoot.reverse()
            print '_'.join(listToRoot)
        event.skip()

I think this is near enough the thing you wanted, isn't it?

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Resource Editor bug (?)

[Jussi S. <jus...@pp...>]

And the plot thickens...

I've been playing a little with the multipropertyEditor changing the 
place in question to look like this:       

    print '==========================='
    if propName in self.checkItems:
        print 'propName:', propName, ' in checkItems'
        value = self.components["chk"+propName].checked
    elif propName in self.popItems:
        print 'propName:', propName, ' in popItems'
        value = self.components["pop"+propName].stringSelection
    elif propName in ('items', 'userdata') or (wClass == 'TextArea' and 
propName == 'text'):
        print 'propName:', propName, ' in items, userdata or ...'
        value = self.components["fld"+propName].text
    else:
        print 'propName:', propName, ' in else:'
        value = self.components["fld"+propName].text

    print 'value, type:', value, type(value)
    if propName == "textArea": propName = 'text'
    if propName not in ['name', 'label', 'stringSelection', 'text', 
'toolTip', 'userdata']:
        try:
            value = eval(value)
            print '===> evaluated value, type:', value, type(value)
        except:
            print "===> Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]
            pass

I then inserted a few component types and tried changing their 
properties just to get a feel of what's going on.

1. A checkbox, for example. Trying to change its Checked property on and 
off. Here's the result:
    ===========================
    propName: checked  in checkItems
    value, type: True <type 'bool'>
    ===> Unexpected error: exceptions.TypeError
    ===========================
    propName: checked  in checkItems
    value, type: False <type 'bool'>
    ===> Unexpected error: exceptions.TypeError

This is because eval expects a string and it gets a boolean. The error 
was shadowed earlier by pass that 'handles' the exception.

I've been wondering in general about the true reason for this  
value=eval(value)  thing for a couple hours now and I think it could be 
done (a) for validity checking, (b) for getting a useful value evaluated 
or (c) for both. But in the particular case of checkItems, the 
layouteditor itself has  chosen either False or True as the value so 
where is the additional value that it gets by checking&evaluating this 
value? What I mean is that Checked, Visible and Enabled properties, 
which all are booleans, should be listed in the  not-in-check also.


2. A button, for example. If I enter (in the command field) the word 
open (as I so innocently did before), click update, change open to 
value, click update, change value to startTransfer and click update, I get:
   
    ===========================
    propName: command  in else:
    value, type: open <type 'str'>
    ===> evaluated value, type: <type 'file'> <type 'type'>
    ===========================
    propName: command  in else:
    value, type: value <type 'str'>
    ===> evaluated value, type: value <type 'str'>
    ===========================
    propName: command  in else:
    value, type: startTransfer <type 'str'>
    ===> Unexpected error: exceptions.NameError

I understand the reason for the last exception, but I think it's 
logically wrong in this situation. The validity check for the string 
entered in the command field, say xyz for example, to my mind is that 
the construction on_xyz_command has to be a legal form of a Python 
method name. So what I'm saying is that I think the command string 
should not be checked here at all but that it should undergo the same 
check done for the name property a few lines later. The incidence that 
started this thread (the first case above) is another kind of reason for 
leaving the command checking out of this context.

What I don' understand at all is the result of the middle one of my 
experiments. I think I should have gotten an exception but instead value 
evaluates to value?!?

All in all: I can't see the value of this feature in layouteditor. The 
evaluation is done in the editor's environment and I fail to see the 
usefulness of having the possibility of using the values of the editor 
entities in painting my application window!

Well, this was my 2 cents' worth.  I'm no Python wizard and this was the 
first time ever, that I've looked the resourceEditor under the cover. 
Thus, what I'd like to hear would be KEA's (who's signatures throughout 
the code make me believe he's the one who knows) explanation for this 
eval. Maybe after that I would think differently about the matter.

Cheers,
Jussi Salmela
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Alex Tweedly kirjoitti:
> Jussi Salmela wrote:
>
>> Hello all and particularly Alex Tweedly, I guess!
>>
>> I'm using Python 2.4.3, wxPython 2.3.0, PythonCard 0.8.2 and its 
>> Resource Editor on Win XP SP2.
>>
>> 1. I have an ImageButton and a bunch of other components on my page.
>> 2. I enter
>>    open
>> into the command field of the ImageButton component in the Property 
>> Editor.
>> 3. I click some other component(s) active and then click ImageButton 
>> active again.
>> 4. The command field now contains
>>    <type 'file'>
>> instead of the open I entered earlier.
>> 5. If I now run my program I get an error, so not only the display is 
>> erroneous but also the resource file.
>> 6. If I retype open in the command field, save and run, everything 
>> works as expected.
>>  
>>
> Hmmmm - very interesting.
>
> 1. It's not unique to ImageButton - happens with any component.
> 2. It's (probably) not unique to the 'command' attribute - should 
> happen to some others, but I haven't tried too hard to see which ones 
> it happens with.
>
> It's caused by the following snippet of code in 
> modules/propertyEditor.py (and /multipropertyEditor,.py):
>
>>         if propName not in ['label', 'stringSelection', 'text', 
>> 'toolTip', 'userdata']:
>>             try:
>>                 value = eval(value)
>>             except:
>>                 pass
>
> I'm not 100% sure why this was wanted. It does let you do interesting 
> things - e.g. you can enter a string such as
>   3+8
> and it will be evaluated to 11 for you. You can enter a string like
>  [20+3*15, 17]
> and it will be evaluated (to [65,17]) for, say,  the position value. 
> And various other more strange possibilities
> (e.g.   enter    self.position   and you get the current co-ords of 
> the property editor window !!)
>
> But I'm not clear on what the *useful* purpose of this eval is.
>
> In any case, the two oddities I know about are    'open' and 'file' 
> which both eval to   <type 'file'>  (though there may be others).
>
> Suggestions (please comment):
>
> 1. short term - just avoid either open or file as command names :-)
>
> 2. figure out an exhaustive list of strings which eval to something 
> they "shouldn't", and explicitly check for them (??)
>
> 3. decide that you never want to eval the user-entered value to 
> produce a Python type, so add a test something like
>      if not isinstance(eval(value), types.TypeType) :
> before resetting the variable 'value', thus
>   if propName not in ['label', 'stringSelection', 'text', 'toolTip', 
> 'userdata']:
>            try:
>                if not isinstance(eval(value), types.TypeType) : value 
> = eval(value)
>            except:
>                pass
>
> 4. decide whether there is real purpose in doing an 'eval' here at 
> all, and if there is, limiting the use to those cases, somehow.
>
>
>

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Resource Editor bug (?)

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Jussi Salmela wrote:

>Hello all and particularly Alex Tweedly, I guess!
>
>I'm using Python 2.4.3, wxPython 2.3.0, PythonCard 0.8.2 and its 
>Resource Editor on Win XP SP2.
>
>1. I have an ImageButton and a bunch of other components on my page.
>2. I enter
>    open
>into the command field of the ImageButton component in the Property Editor.
>3. I click some other component(s) active and then click ImageButton 
>active again.
>4. The command field now contains
>    <type 'file'>
>instead of the open I entered earlier.
>5. If I now run my program I get an error, so not only the display is 
>erroneous but also the resource file.
>6. If I retype open in the command field, save and run, everything works 
>as expected.
>  
>
Hmmmm - very interesting.

1. It's not unique to ImageButton - happens with any component.
2. It's (probably) not unique to the 'command' attribute - should happen 
to some others, but I haven't tried too hard to see which ones it 
happens with.

It's caused by the following snippet of code in 
modules/propertyEditor.py (and /multipropertyEditor,.py):

>         if propName not in ['label', 'stringSelection', 'text', 
> 'toolTip', 'userdata']:
>             try:
>                 value = eval(value)
>             except:
>                 pass

I'm not 100% sure why this was wanted. It does let you do interesting 
things - e.g. you can enter a string such as
   3+8
and it will be evaluated to 11 for you. You can enter a string like
  [20+3*15, 17]
and it will be evaluated (to [65,17]) for, say,  the position value. And 
various other more strange possibilities
 (e.g.   enter    self.position   and you get the current co-ords of the 
property editor window !!)

But I'm not clear on what the *useful* purpose of this eval is.

In any case, the two oddities I know about are    'open' and 'file' 
which both eval to   <type 'file'>  (though there may be others).

Suggestions (please comment):

1. short term - just avoid either open or file as command names :-)

2. figure out an exhaustive list of strings which eval to something they 
"shouldn't", and explicitly check for them (??)

3. decide that you never want to eval the user-entered value to produce 
a Python type, so add a test something like
      if not isinstance(eval(value), types.TypeType) :
before resetting the variable 'value', thus
   if propName not in ['label', 'stringSelection', 'text', 'toolTip', 
'userdata']:
            try:
                if not isinstance(eval(value), types.TypeType) : value = 
eval(value)
            except:
                pass

4. decide whether there is real purpose in doing an 'eval' here at all, 
and if there is, limiting the use to those cases, somehow.



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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Resource Editor bug (?)

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Jussi Salmela wrote:

>Hello all and particularly Alex Tweedly, I guess!
>
>I'm using Python 2.4.3, wxPython 2.3.0, PythonCard 0.8.2 and its 
>Resource Editor on Win XP SP2.
>
>1. I have an ImageButton and a bunch of other components on my page.
>2. I enter
>    open
>into the command field of the ImageButton component in the Property Editor.
>3. I click some other component(s) active and then click ImageButton 
>active again.
>4. The command field now contains
>    <type 'file'>
>instead of the open I entered earlier.
>5. If I now run my program I get an error, so not only the display is 
>erroneous but also the resource file.
>6. If I retype open in the command field, save and run, everything works 
>as expected.
>
>  
>
That is pretty weird !
Good news is I can reproduce it easily, so with luck it should be easy 
to track it down - with (lots of) luck I'll find something today - 
otherwise I'm travelling without net access or computer for the weekend, 
so it'll be some time mid-week before I get another chance to try ....

Thanks for such a clear report of the problem.

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[Pythoncard-users] Resource Editor bug (?)

[Jussi S. <jus...@pp...>]

Hello all and particularly Alex Tweedly, I guess!

I'm using Python 2.4.3, wxPython 2.3.0, PythonCard 0.8.2 and its 
Resource Editor on Win XP SP2.

1. I have an ImageButton and a bunch of other components on my page.
2. I enter
    open
into the command field of the ImageButton component in the Property Editor.
3. I click some other component(s) active and then click ImageButton 
active again.
4. The command field now contains
    <type 'file'>
instead of the open I entered earlier.
5. If I now run my program I get an error, so not only the display is 
erroneous but also the resource file.
6. If I retype open in the command field, save and run, everything works 
as expected.

Cheers,

Jussi Salmela
http://personal.inet.fi/cool/operator

[Pythoncard-users] Tree Control

[Ade <sk...@bl...>]

Hello,
	I an having a real problem with a tree control.

	I can generate tree for a set of infomation like:
	=

	ROOT
	|
	----a
	----b
	|   |
	|   ----click
	|   ----drop
	|
	----d
	    |
	    ----click		=


and the set is a break down of a lines of code like this :
   Root_b_drop
or
   Root_b_click

but I can not for the life of me see how to recreate the line of code
or hold a pointer so that clicking the 'click' or 'drop' item in the
tree gives me the full line back.
	If I click on 'click' then the only text returned is 'click' which
is not unique for looking up in a list.
	Does the item you click on have to be unique so you can look up
the answer in a list?
	A pointer is returned with event.GetItem() but i have not been able
to use this as a unique reference to anything I get errors, which is odd=

since I can use the pointer to store a list or dictionary as in


		new1 =3D tree.AppendItem(new1, "tabControlMain")
		s.dict[new1] =3D "tabControlMain"

but on the 'activate Item' I get the 'expected type' errors

I have searched the net and it seems only concerned with getting data
into a tree and not out again.
Please show me how I should be referencing the return values on say the
'item_Activated' function.

Thankyou
Adrian Smith



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Re: [Pythoncard-users] linux installation

[Steve F. <sf...@ih...>]

> Did you take a look at the Linux installation instructions;
> 
> http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/linux_installation.html
> 
> If you're on a distribution that supports RPM package installation like 
> Red Hat or one that supports deb packages like Ubuntu you don't need to 
> perform an installation from source.

We ought to change the Debian-oriented installation instructions on that
web page because the Debian package has been orphaned (or is in process
of becoming so) and is out of date. I exchanged emails with the former
(still listed?) maintainer, and he said he didn't have time to do it any
longer.

Of course, a body who wants to maintain the Debian package is preferable
to amending the Debian instrucs to read "sudo python setup.py install",
but if wishes were horses blah blah.

Steve

Re: [Pythoncard-users] linux installation

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Carl Wenrich wrote:
> I've just unzipped PythonCard on a linux box. I can't find a configure 
> script, or any other instructions about how to install it, other than 
> simply placing the directory under site-packages, but that won't make it 
> visible.
> 
> Please advise,
> 
> Carl
> 
> 

Did you take a look at the Linux installation instructions;

http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/linux_installation.html

If you're on a distribution that supports RPM package installation like 
Red Hat or one that supports deb packages like Ubuntu you don't need to 
perform an installation from source.

I do note that we don't have any instructions on installing from source 
though, I'll see what I can do to fix that.

Regards,
Andy
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[Pythoncard-users] grid lines

[Carl W. <car...@ya...>]

The grid lines don't appear in the resourceEditor (after clicking  Options > Show Grid Lines) under linux (which works fine under  windows). is this a bug or am i missing something?
  

Re: [Pythoncard-users] linux installation

[Steve F. <sf...@ih...>]

cd into the PythonCard directory. Then:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

IIRC, that is. :-)

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 13:52 -0700, Carl Wenrich wrote:
> I've just unzipped PythonCard on a linux box. I can't find a configure
> script, or any other instructions about how to install it, other than
> simply placing the directory under site-packages, but that won't make
> it visible.
> 
> Please advise,
> 
> Carl
> 
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[Pythoncard-users] linux installation

[Carl W. <car...@ya...>]

I've just unzipped PythonCard on a linux box. I can't find a configure  script, or any other instructions about how to install it, other than  simply placing the directory under site-packages, but that won't make  it visible.
  
  Please advise,
  
  Carl
  
  

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Maximized window

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

hwphillips wrote:

>I have an interesting window problem. My pcard rsrc sets the window size 
>at 700x500. When the program runs it it maximized to full screen 
>(1152x864). So it seems to ignore the program setting. This seems to be 
>related to other programs, because it has worked before, but does not 
>work after running some other programs. Why doesn't the pcard routine 
>control the window size like it's supposed too?
>  
>

Could you send the rsrc file (direct to me at al...@tw..., or to 
the list) ?

Which version PythonCard (and for the heck of it, Python, wxPython, etc) 
?  OS ?

If you reboot and run this app before other apps (that might change some 
system setting), does it work ?

Thanks,

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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Maximized window

[hwphillips <bu...@ya...>]

hwphillips wrote:
> I have an interesting window problem. My pcard rsrc sets the window size 
> at 700x500. When the program runs it it maximized to full screen 
> (1152x864). So it seems to ignore the program setting. This seems to be 
> related to other programs, because it has worked before, but does not 
> work after running some other programs. Why doesn't the pcard routine 
> control the window size like it's supposed too?
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642

I found the culprit program. It is RapidSVN. If I leave it maximized and 
  exit, the pcard program mentioned above will be maximized. Very wierd. 
I noticed that RApidSVN uses wxWidgets. Maybe some connection here.