Apologies for the long post! I've made 2 applications that could
interest others also.
1. Blood Pressure Monitor (BPM)
BPM is a PythonCard application for storing values of blood pressure
measurements and for producing PDF charts of those values. The chart can
be used by the physician of a patient to control the effect of the
medical treatment being used.
Despite its rather pompous name BPM is a modest, simple to use program.
All it does could probably have been accomplished easily by a couple of
Office macros, but I'm only willing to use tools that include Python or
at least Py in their names.;)
The purpose was to make
- the data entry fast but still ensure the validity of the data
- the charting in the ideal case happen with a single mouse click
BPM produces a one-page PDF file containing:
- the 'traditional' date-oriented systolic and diastolic pressure graphs
- the scatterplot of (systolic, diastolic) pairs
- the BP value distribution as a bar chart with BP values as X-axis and
the frequencies of those values as Y-axis.
- the quartiles Q1-Q3 for systolic and diastolic pressures
After that BPM starts Acrobat Reader giving it the name of the file
produced. The chart can then be viewed and printed or e-mailed as need be.
BPM could serve as an example for developers using Pythoncard of how to
use wx.Notebook and wx.Grid with Pythoncard. It might also be an example
of how to do things the hard and wrong way, because part of what I've
accomplished has been the result of trial-and-error.
Some of the things I would have liked to been able to do I couldn't. For
example, I would have liked to make the first field 'sDay' of the second
tabsheet 'Data Chart' to be active when coming to this tab the first
time after the start and yet to have the first tabsheet 'Data Entry' and
preferably the (0,0) cell of the grid in it be active. Trying to do this
resulted in a perverse condition where I had activated the 'Data Entry'
with 'stringselection' and yet the input focus was in the 'sDay' field
in the hidden tabsheet 'Data Chart'!
2. A Trick Card Game
This card game belongs to the "plain trick games without trumps"
category. I'm not aware of its name, so I'll have to describe its rules.
The game is simple so it is particularly suitable for children.
One player plays against 3 computer players. Each player is dealt a hand
of 5 cards. A round consists of each player in turn playing one card.
The suit of the leading card determines the suit to play in that round.
If the player has cards of that suit, he has to play the suit but he is
not forced to use a higher-valued card. If the player does not have the
leading suit, any suit can be played. The player with the highest card
of the round's suit wins the trick getting 1 point.
The game comes with UIs defined for two languages, English and Finnish,
and with description on how to translate the UI to some other language.
3. Environment and download
The programs have been developed and tested on Windows XP Home SP2 using
the following great software: Python 2.4.3, wxPython 2.6.3, PythonCard
0.8.2, PyChart 1.34 and Acrobat Reader 7.0.8. They have a non-essential
Windows dependence of using winsound with error messages.
They are distributed under the MIT license (see the attached file
License.txt)
The download page is:
http://personal.inet.fi/cool/operator/ProgToDownload.html
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