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Re: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard

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

Michael Martinez wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've made several attempts to install PythonCard v0.8.1 with no success.
>
>I am installing this on Windows XP.
>
>Python v.2.4 insalled with no problem.
>
>It is when I execute the two install files for either wxPython and
>Pythoncard that a command window pops up briefly for each and dissapears
>right away.
>
>When I run the 'acid test', I can't seem to find where the initialization
>file for the Pythoncard editor to start.
>  
>
Which "acid test" ?
What error message do you get ? (or, how do you know some initialization 
files are needed ?)

But in fact, we should first make sure that your wxPython install 
succeeded ....
which version of wxPython are you installing ?  (what's the installer 
file name)
Did you download and install the wxPython demo and docs package ?
    (if you didn't, I would highly recommend you do - although you can 
do a lot with only the Pythoncard docs, you'll almost certainly want 
access to the wxPython docs at some point. And the demos give you a good 
test that everything is good with your wxPython installation).
If you can run the wxPython demos successfully, then we can start on 
PythonCard. If not - we need to get that out of the way first; any error 
messages from the wxPython demo ?




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[Pythoncard-users] PythonCard

[Michael M. <mcd...@ve...>]

Hi,

I've made several attempts to install PythonCard v0.8.1 with no success.

I am installing this on Windows XP.

Python v.2.4 insalled with no problem.

It is when I execute the two install files for either wxPython and
Pythoncard that a command window pops up briefly for each and dissapears
right away.

When I run the 'acid test', I can't seem to find where the initialization
file for the Pythoncard editor to start.

Has anybody seen this before? What was your solution?

Thanks,

Mike

[Pythoncard-users] Re: Not enjoying win32 programming...

[Matt <bs...@gm...>]

If you replace "os.system" with "os.startfile" in the last line of your
example, is the result different?



> From: Phil Edwards <ph...@li...>
> To: pyt...@li...
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:17:29 +0100
> Subject: [Pythoncard-users] Not enjoying win32 programming...
>
> Hi All:
>
> Coming from a Linux background, I'm struggling to understand some of the
> things that appear to be going on behind the scenes when I'm coding stuff
> to
> run under Windows XP.
>
> The application in question has a textfield containing the name of a
> Python
> source code file and an 'Edit...' button next to it. When I click the
> button,
> I'm running this code:
>
>    def on_mainScriptEditBtn_mouseClick(self, event):
>        editor =3D self.cfg.get('ConfigData', 'codeeditor')
>        item =3D self.pathJoin(self.components.mainScript.text)
>        item =3D os.path.join(self.components.baseDir.text, item)
>        item =3D os.path.join(self.cfg.get('ConfigData', 'projects'), item=
)
>        if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
>            editor =3D GetShortPathName(editor)
>            item =3D GetShortPathName(item)
>        print editor + ' ' + item
>        os.system(editor + ' ' + item)
>
> When the code runs, it prints out what I'm expecting, namely that I'm
> trying
> to run the Pythoncard code editor with the name of a script file as the
> only
> parameter on the command line. I then get the standard 'windows cannot
> open
> this file' dialog box and I get to tell Windows that I want codeEditor.py=
to
> be opened using the program called 'python'. The codeEditor duly opens up=
,
> but it seems as though Windows is somehow losing my command line paramete=
r
> and all I end up with is a blank codeEditor window, instead of it opening
> the
> file I wanted it to. Adding a simple 'print sys.argv' to the top of the
> codeEditor proves that this is the case.
>
> Could somebody please explain to a dumb UNIX user what vital piece of
> information I'm missing in order to make this work?
>

[Pythoncard-users] Re: Pythoncard-users digest, Vol 1 #1139 - 2 msgs

[Matt <bs...@gm...>]

If you replace "os.system" with "os.startfile" in the last line of your
example, is the result different?



On 4/12/06, pyt...@li... <
pyt...@li...> wrote:
>
> Message: 1
> From: Phil Edwards <ph...@li...>
> To: pyt...@li...
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:17:29 +0100
> Subject: [Pythoncard-users] Not enjoying win32 programming...
>
> Hi All:
>
> Coming from a Linux background, I'm struggling to understand some of the
> things that appear to be going on behind the scenes when I'm coding stuff
> to
> run under Windows XP.
>
> The application in question has a textfield containing the name of a
> Python
> source code file and an 'Edit...' button next to it. When I click the
> button,
> I'm running this code:
>
>    def on_mainScriptEditBtn_mouseClick(self, event):
>        editor =3D self.cfg.get('ConfigData', 'codeeditor')
>        item =3D self.pathJoin(self.components.mainScript.text)
>        item =3D os.path.join(self.components.baseDir.text, item)
>        item =3D os.path.join(self.cfg.get('ConfigData', 'projects'), item=
)
>        if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
>            editor =3D GetShortPathName(editor)
>            item =3D GetShortPathName(item)
>        print editor + ' ' + item
>        os.system(editor + ' ' + item)
>
> When the code runs, it prints out what I'm expecting, namely that I'm
> trying
> to run the Pythoncard code editor with the name of a script file as the
> only
> parameter on the command line. I then get the standard 'windows cannot
> open
> this file' dialog box and I get to tell Windows that I want codeEditor.py=
to
> be opened using the program called 'python'. The codeEditor duly opens up=
,
> but it seems as though Windows is somehow losing my command line paramete=
r
> and all I end up with is a blank codeEditor window, instead of it opening
> the
> file I wanted it to. Adding a simple 'print sys.argv' to the top of the
> codeEditor proves that this is the case.
>
> Could somebody please explain to a dumb UNIX user what vital piece of
> information I'm missing in order to make this work?
>

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Not enjoying win32 programming...

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

Phil Edwards wrote:

>Hi All:
>
>Coming from a Linux background, I'm struggling to understand some of the 
>things that appear to be going on behind the scenes when I'm coding stuff to 
>run under Windows XP.
>
>The application in question has a textfield containing the name of a Python 
>source code file and an 'Edit...' button next to it. When I click the button, 
>I'm running this code:
>  
>
>When the code runs, it prints out what I'm expecting, namely that I'm trying 
>to run the Pythoncard code editor with the name of a script file as the only 
>parameter on the command line. I then get the standard 'windows cannot open 
>this file' dialog box and I get to tell Windows that I want codeEditor.py to 
>be opened using the program called 'python'. The codeEditor duly opens up, 
>but it seems as though Windows is somehow losing my command line parameter 
>and all I end up with is a blank codeEditor window, instead of it opening the 
>file I wanted it to. Adding a simple 'print sys.argv' to the top of the 
>codeEditor proves that this is the case.
>
>Could somebody please explain to a dumb UNIX user what vital piece of 
>information I'm missing in order to make this work?
>
>  
>
Explain it ? No, I don't think I can do that.

Give you something that works ? - Maybe.

Here's what I tried - paths hard-coded for my system.
The first time it starts up, no argument is successfully passed.
Second time it works as hoped for ....

>     def on_Button1_mouseClick(self, event):
>         editor = "c:\\python\\PythonCard\\tools\\oneEditor\\test.py"
>         item = "c:\\python\\PythonCard\\tools\\oneEditor\\test.py"
>         print editor + ' ' + item
>         os.system(editor + ' ' + item)
>         os.system("python " + editor + ' ' + item)

I'm not sure if it is always safe to just prepend the python command - 
may depend on the Python installation. You should be able to avoid any 
danger there by using the code used from the codeEditor to run a script 
(see function runScript)

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[Pythoncard-users] Not enjoying win32 programming...

[Phil E. <ph...@li...>]

Hi All:

Coming from a Linux background, I'm struggling to understand some of the 
things that appear to be going on behind the scenes when I'm coding stuff to 
run under Windows XP.

The application in question has a textfield containing the name of a Python 
source code file and an 'Edit...' button next to it. When I click the button, 
I'm running this code:

    def on_mainScriptEditBtn_mouseClick(self, event):
        editor = self.cfg.get('ConfigData', 'codeeditor')
        item = self.pathJoin(self.components.mainScript.text)
        item = os.path.join(self.components.baseDir.text, item)
        item = os.path.join(self.cfg.get('ConfigData', 'projects'), item)
        if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
            editor = GetShortPathName(editor)
            item = GetShortPathName(item)
        print editor + ' ' + item
        os.system(editor + ' ' + item)

When the code runs, it prints out what I'm expecting, namely that I'm trying 
to run the Pythoncard code editor with the name of a script file as the only 
parameter on the command line. I then get the standard 'windows cannot open 
this file' dialog box and I get to tell Windows that I want codeEditor.py to 
be opened using the program called 'python'. The codeEditor duly opens up, 
but it seems as though Windows is somehow losing my command line parameter 
and all I end up with is a blank codeEditor window, instead of it opening the 
file I wanted it to. Adding a simple 'print sys.argv' to the top of the 
codeEditor proves that this is the case.

Could somebody please explain to a dumb UNIX user what vital piece of 
information I'm missing in order to make this work?



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Phil Edwards
Brighton, UK

Re: [Pythoncard-users] [Fwd: Request for information]

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

Andy Todd wrote:

> Anyone like to help?
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
I'll email him (her?) off-list and see if I can help ...

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[Pythoncard-users] [Fwd: Request for information]

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

Anyone like to help?

Regards,
Andy
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Re: [Pythoncard-users] installation of pythoncard

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

Alan Craigon wrote:
> I have wxPython installed, python 2.4 installed and have a folder with 
> python card files ready to install. Every time I try to install on my 
> Linux system using setup.py build & setupt.py install everything appears 
> to work but I am unable to start pythoncard. What am I doing wrong?

What are you trying to run? When you install PythonCard on a Linux 
system from the .tar.gz all of the files are installed into your 
site-packages directory. On my (Ubuntu) box this is 
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages

So, for instance, to run the resourceEditor tool you'll need a command like;

$ 
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PythonCard/tools/resourceEditor/resourceEditor.py

To run your own PythonCard applications you'll just need to make the .py 
file executable and run it from a shell.

Regards,
Andy
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[Pythoncard-users] installation of pythoncard

[Alan C. <ACr...@el...>]

I have wxPython installed, python 2.4 installed and have a folder with
python card files ready to install. Every time I try to install on my
Linux system using setup.py build & setupt.py install everything appears
to work but I am unable to start pythoncard. What am I doing wrong?

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Background image

[Brian M. <mrb...@gm...>]

I swiped this code from Pythoncard\widget.py   - some modifications and a
self.Refresh( )

import graphic

# where you want to change images
    self.panel._imageFile =3D yourOtherImageFile
    self.panel._bitmap =3D graphic.Bitmap( self.panel._imageFile )

    self.Refresh( )

On 3/22/06, =D8yvind Dale Sp=F8rck <oe...@sp...> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I am making a Pythoncard application and cannot seem to find how I can
> change the background image.
>
> {'application':{'type':'Application',
>           'name':'Template',
>     'backgrounds': [
>     {'type':'Background',
>           'name':'bgTemplate',
>           'title':u'MyProg',
>           'size':(839, 666),
>           'image':'graphics.jpg',
>           'visible':1,
>
> By changing the visible to 0 (by self.Show(0)), nothing shows. I would
> just like the image graphics.jpg to not, or to be able to change it in th=
e
> program. Is that possible?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Background image

[Brian M. <mrb...@gm...>]

I swiped this code from Pythoncard\widget.py

import graphic

# where you want to change images
    self.panel._imageFile =3D yourOtherImageFile
    self.panel._bitmap =3D graphic.Bitmap( self.panel._imageFile )



On 3/22/06, =D8yvind Dale Sp=F8rck <oe...@sp...> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I am making a Pythoncard application and cannot seem to find how I can
> change the background image.
>
> {'application':{'type':'Application',
>           'name':'Template',
>     'backgrounds': [
>     {'type':'Background',
>           'name':'bgTemplate',
>           'title':u'MyProg',
>           'size':(839, 666),
>           'image':'graphics.jpg',
>           'visible':1,
>
> By changing the visible to 0 (by self.Show(0)), nothing shows. I would
> just like the image graphics.jpg to not, or to be able to change it in th=
e
> program. Is that possible?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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[Pythoncard-users] Background image

[<py...@ka...>]

Hello.

I am making a Pythoncard application and cannot seem to find how I can
change the background image.

{'application':{'type':'Application',
          'name':'Template',
    'backgrounds': [
    {'type':'Background',
          'name':'bgTemplate',
          'title':u'MyProg',
          'size':(839, 666),
          'image':'graphics.jpg',
          'visible':1,

By changing the visible to 0 (by self.Show(0)), nothing shows. I would
just like the image graphics.jpg to not, or to be able to change it in the
program. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance.



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[Pythoncard-users] Background image

[<oe...@sp...>]

Hello.

I am making a Pythoncard application and cannot seem to find how I can
change the background image.

{'application':{'type':'Application',
          'name':'Template',
    'backgrounds': [
    {'type':'Background',
          'name':'bgTemplate',
          'title':u'MyProg',
          'size':(839, 666),
          'image':'graphics.jpg',
          'visible':1,

By changing the visible to 0 (by self.Show(0)), nothing shows. I would
just like the image graphics.jpg to not, or to be able to change it in the
program. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance.


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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Updated version of PythonCard

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

David Bain wrote:

> Will this fix the unicode issues with ResourceEditor and mulitcolumnlists?
>
Short answer : don't know.

Long answer : what I will do is basically to package up the current CVS 
(making changes on;y to handle the changes in version numbers, etc.)  So 
any problems that exist in CVS-latest will still exist.

I know there was a recent fix to the resourceEditor for unicode issues, 
but I don't recall any fix (or any problems being discussed) re. Unicode 
and multicolumnlists).

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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Updated version of PythonCard

[David B. <dav...@al...>]

Will this fix the unicode issues with ResourceEditor and mulitcolumnlists?

On 3/18/06, Alex Tweedly <al...@tw...> wrote:
>
> Vania Smrkovski wrote:
>
> > I believe I see from time to time mentions that you are working on an
> > updated version.  Is this still in the works?  And is there a
> > "snapshot" link somewhere to the currently active version?  I don't
> > have CVS and was hoping to get a working updated version without
> > downloading each file individually....
>
> Yes, a new version is in the works. I'm afraid it will be next weekend
> before I get a chance to do much to it - but with luck it should be done
> by the end of this month. (Note - this will be the first time I've tried
> to do a release - so that might turn out to be an optimistic schedule).
>
> Unfortunately there is no snapshot version available. There are free
> versions of CVS available for all platforms, and it's fairly easy to get
> it going for anonymous access.
>
> >
> > I hope development hasn't stopped.  I consider PythonCard to be an
> > excellent tool and framework, and it is currently my preferred choice
> > of Python UI.
> >
>
> Nope, hasn't stopped, though it has been quiet for a while.
>
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[Pythoncard-users] Python IDE developers wiki

[phil j. <int...@gm...>]

Anyone here interested in this attempt to create more dialogue between
Python IDE developers?

http://pyxides.stani.be/

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Updated version of PythonCard

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

Vania Smrkovski wrote:

> I believe I see from time to time mentions that you are working on an 
> updated version.  Is this still in the works?  And is there a 
> "snapshot" link somewhere to the currently active version?  I don't 
> have CVS and was hoping to get a working updated version without 
> downloading each file individually....

Yes, a new version is in the works. I'm afraid it will be next weekend 
before I get a chance to do much to it - but with luck it should be done 
by the end of this month. (Note - this will be the first time I've tried 
to do a release - so that might turn out to be an optimistic schedule).

Unfortunately there is no snapshot version available. There are free 
versions of CVS available for all platforms, and it's fairly easy to get 
it going for anonymous access.

>  
> I hope development hasn't stopped.  I consider PythonCard to be an  
> excellent tool and framework, and it is currently my preferred choice 
> of Python UI.
>  

Nope, hasn't stopped, though it has been quiet for a while.

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[Pythoncard-users] MulticolumnList and flatfiledatabase

[David B. <dav...@al...>]

I've created a variation of the flatfiledatabase example with a
MultiColumnList.
But it won't save the content of the Multicolumn list.

[Pythoncard-users] Updated version of PythonCard

[Vania S. <va...@pa...>]

 I believe I see from time to time mentions that you are working on an
updated version.  Is this still in the works?  And is there a "snapshot"
link somewhere to the currently active version?  I don't have CVS and was
hoping to get a working updated version without downloading each file
individually....

I hope development hasn't stopped.  I consider PythonCard to be an
excellent tool and framework, and it is currently my preferred choice of
Python UI.

Vania

[Pythoncard-users] Updated version of PythonCard

[Vania S. <van...@gm...>]

I believe I see from time to time mentions that you are working on an
updated version.  Is this still in the works?  And is there a "snapshot"
link somewhere to the currently active version?  I don't have CVS and was
hoping to get a working updated version without downloading each file
individually....

I hope development hasn't stopped.  I consider PythonCard to be an
excellent tool and framework, and it is currently my preferred choice of
Python UI.

Vania

[Pythoncard-users] column width in MultiColumnList

[Tjerk H. <tj...@br...>]

Coming from Visual Basic, seems I am getting the hang of python and =
pythoncard.
But I don=B4t like the autosize attribute from the MultiColumnList.
How can I get fixed Column Widths?

Tjerk

Re: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard dialogs can only use 7-bit Ascii?

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

Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> I'm just making my first steps with PythonCard and I think I like it.
> 
> However, I found that most string attributes are converted to 7-bit 
> ascii by the resource editor. This makes it impossible to use text 
> attributes with international characters like German Umlaute - they are 
> simply swallowed.
> 
> The culprit is the following code in resourceOutput.py:
> 
>     if isinstance(value, unicode):
>         value = value.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
> 
> After removing it, everything seems to work fine (no matter whether I 
> have Unicode enabled wxpython installed or not). So is there any real 
> reason that this conversion takes place? Maybe only historical reasons?
> 
> -- Christoph
> 
> 

Done. Thanks for spotting this.

Regards,
Andy
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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Closing COM object (e.g. Excel) when Python app dies

[Bill B. <bil...@pe...>]

Warren Sande wrote:
> I have a PythonCard app that opens up an Excel spreadsheet using the 
> win32com module.
>  

<snip>

You may have better luck asking on the Python-win32 list :-) You can 
sign up here:

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32

You can also search the Python-win32 archives here:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/Python-win32

HTH,

Bill

[Pythoncard-users] Closing COM object (e.g. Excel) when Python app dies

[Warren S. <ws...@tr...>]

I have a PythonCard app that opens up an Excel spreadsheet using the
win32com module.
=20
I started doing this in Perl, then recently switched to Python (and
PythonCard), which I am just learning.
=20
In Perl, I found the following code snippet which I used in my app:
=20
----------------------
# use existing instance if Excel is already running
 eval {$ex =3D Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')};
 die "Excel not installed" if $@;
 unless (defined $ex) {
     $ex =3D Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;})
             or die "Oops, cannot start Excel";
     $ex->{Visible} =3D 1;
 }  # Note the destructor specified on the Win32::OLE->new method.=20
    # It ensures that Excel will shutdown properly even if the Perl
program dies.
----------------------
=20
I would like to be able to do the same in Python, but don't know if it
is supported, and can't find or figure out the syntax if it is.
=20
I know this is not really a PythonCard question, but I'm hoping that
other PythonCard users are working with win32com and might be able to
help me out.
=20
My code to open the excel object is simply this:
=20
----------------------
import win32com as wc
...
=20
self.xl =3D wc.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
self.xl.Visible =3D 1
...
=20
self.xl.Quit()
----------------------
=20
Warren Sande
=20