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From: Schollnick, B. <Ben...@us...> - 2004-06-21 14:05:38
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> > I'm probably missing something simple here.... > > > You could use a custom dialog, and use an HTMLWindow inside > it. If you even > need it to be a dialog - might be just as easy to display the > file within > the primary window ? Maybe a silly question... But I do not see a easy way to make a custom dialog? I guess I could power up resourceditor, make a "second" application that looks like a custom dialog... But I would think there has to be a simple way to do that? The goal here is: * Switch to a monospaced font. The Scrolled Window font is completely ruining any "table" design that I setup due to the non-monospaced font... I just looked again and there is no wxpython nor pythoncard documentation that talks about setting up the font for those dialogs... * Maybe some other font "goodies"... HTML would be nice, but is not necessary.... - Benjamin |
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From: Schollnick, B. <Ben...@us...> - 2004-06-22 13:26:41
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Something is not kosher here...
I can create the dialog properly in the Resource Editor,
but when I go to save it... It does not appear to save...
If I close the window, it asks me if I wish to save the changes..
No matter how many times I tell it to save, if I revert to the
disk file, it's the standard template file... (Without my changes)
I am still running the prototype version.... I am under the impression
that the newer version would require changes in my code, due to changes
since the prototype?
What version are you running?
- Benjamin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Tweedly [mailto:al...@tw...]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:04 PM
> To: Schollnick, Benjamin; 'Alex Tweedly';
> pyt...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Pythoncard-users] ScrolledMessageDialog Window Font
> question s?
>
>
> At 10:02 21/06/2004 -0400, Schollnick, Benjamin wrote:
> >Maybe a silly question... But I do not see a easy way to make a
> >custom dialog?
> >
> >I guess I could power up resourceditor, make a "second" application
> >that looks like a custom dialog...
> >
> >But I would think there has to be a simple way to do that?
>
> Yes, it's pretty easy ....
>
> Fire up the resourceEditor
> Click on File/New... Dialog Template
> Move the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons down to make space
> Add a new Component/TextArea - call it something imaginative
> (TextArea1 in
> my case)
> Make it a suitable size, and set its font to Courier
> File/Save As ... mydialog.rsrc.py
> (see below)
>
> This also saves a file mydialog.py - edit this, to take an
> extra parameter
> "txt" and put it into self.components.TextArea1.text before
> displaying the
> dialog
> (see below)
>
> And then in your program simply call it as
> result = mydialog.myDialog(self, thetextstring)
>
> >The goal here is:
> >
> > * Switch to a monospaced font. The Scrolled Window font is
> > completely ruining any "table" design that
> I setup due
> > to the non-monospaced font...
> >
> > I just looked again and there is no
> wxpython nor pythoncard
> > documentation that talks about setting up
> the font for those
> > dialogs...
>
> Courier font - see example
>
> > * Maybe some other font "goodies"...
>
> Don't see any easy way ...
>
> > HTML would be nice, but is not necessary....
>
> Make it a HTMLWindow instead of a TextArea
>
>
> example.rsrc.py by doing more or less what I described above
> {'type':'CustomDialog',
> 'name':'Template',
> 'title':'Dialog Template',
> 'position':(519, 120),
> 'size':(342, 301),
> 'components': [
>
> {'type':'TextArea',
> 'name':'TextArea1',
> 'position':(10, 10),
> 'size':(309, 177),
> 'alignment':'left',
> 'font':{'faceName': 'Courier', 'family': 'sansSerif', 'size': 8},
> 'text':'this is sample\ntext to show\nit is constant
> width\nmmmmmmmmmmmmmm\niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii\n',
> },
>
> {'type':'Button',
> 'id':5100,
> 'name':'btnOK',
> 'position':(75, 204),
> 'label':'OK',
> },
>
> {'type':'Button',
> 'id':5101,
> 'name':'btnCancel',
> 'position':(177, 203),
> 'label':'Cancel',
> },
>
> ] # end components
> } # end CustomDialog
>
> corresponding mydialog.py (note - slight editing needed to
> get this -
> basically just fixup the parameters and add the setting of
> self.components.TextArea1.text)
>
> from PythonCardPrototype import model
>
> class MyDialog(model.CustomDialog):
> def __init__(self, parent, txt=''):
> model.CustomDialog.__init__(self, parent)
> self.components.TextArea1.text = txt
> # if some special setup is necessary, do it here
> # example from samples/dialogs/minimalDialog.py
> # self.components.field1.text = txt
>
> #def myDialog(parent, txt):
> def myDialog(parent, txt):
> dlg = MyDialog(parent, txt)
> dlg.showModal()
> result = {'accepted':dlg.accepted()}
> # stick your results into the result dictionary here
> # example from samples/dialogs/minimalDialog.py
> # result['text'] = dlg.components.field1.text
> dlg.destroy()
> return result
>
> and finally the code snippet from the program itself (I added
> a button
> "showdialog" to trigger it)
> def on_showdialog_mouseClick(self, event):
> result = mydialog.myDialog(self, self.thestring)
> print result
>
> and sure enough it comes up, and is in Courier font.
>
> Hope this helps
> -- Alex.
>
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From: Alex T. <al...@tw...> - 2004-06-22 13:51:34
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At 09:25 22/06/2004 -0400, Schollnick, Benjamin wrote: >Something is not kosher here... > >I can create the dialog properly in the Resource Editor, >but when I go to save it... It does not appear to save... > >If I close the window, it asks me if I wish to save the changes.. >No matter how many times I tell it to save, if I revert to the >disk file, it's the standard template file... (Without my changes) > >I am still running the prototype version.... I am under the impression >that the newer version would require changes in my code, due to changes >since the prototype? > >What version are you running? Prototype. 0.7.3.1 (on Windows 2000) Resource editor help says : Last updated: 2002-04-13 One unlikely suggestion .... Does the resource editor properly save for you when editing normal resource files ? Try going into res-editor, creating the dialog and saving it to your named file (without doing any editing). Then quit and restart res-editor and File/Open your file - make changes and see if they will save (i.e. just in case it's a problem specific to creating via File/New/Dialog Template). -- Alex. |
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From: Steve H. <sh...@ho...> - 2004-06-22 14:04:17
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Schollnick, Benjamin wrote: >Something is not kosher here... > >I can create the dialog properly in the Resource Editor, >but when I go to save it... It does not appear to save... > >If I close the window, it asks me if I wish to save the changes.. >No matter how many times I tell it to save, if I revert to the >disk file, it's the standard template file... (Without my changes) > >I am still running the prototype version.... I am under the impression >that the newer version would require changes in my code, due to changes >since the prototype? > >What version are you running? > > - Benjamin > > This sounds like a very old bug. I seem to remember that Kevin fixed it a long time ago - are you fully up to date on the prototype? Sadly I don't seem to have a record of the fix. regards Steve |
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From: Phil E. <ph...@li...> - 2004-06-22 14:42:12
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On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 3:04 pm, Steve Holden wrote: > This sounds like a very old bug. I seem to remember that Kevin fixed it > a long time ago - are you fully up to date on the prototype? Sadly I Ditto - I remember this bug too, but like Steve, I can't remember what the fix was. :-( If it's any help, I use an HTML-based custom dialog in my PIMP app to display license details, credits etc. I've ripped the code and resource file out and put it up on my website at: http://www.linux2000.com/downloads/HelpAbout.tar.gz Feel free to use/ignore as required. There's a screenshot of it in action here: http://www.linux2000.com/images/snapshot14.png Hope this helps -- Regards Phil Edwards Brighton, UK |
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From: Schollnick, B. <Ben...@us...> - 2004-06-22 16:21:42
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Folks, > Ditto - I remember this bug too, but like Steve, I can't > remember what the fix was. :-( 7.3.1 Has seemed to clear up the problem.... But I have noticed a few things.... * There seems to be no way for the user to resize the dialog/HTML window * Scroll Bars, I do not see a way to force the scroll bars to be active...? Do I have to explicitly add scroll bars? Also... * HTMLWindow requires a .html file to be passed to it? When I attempted to use a string, it pops up a dialog window reporting that's a invalid file... - Ben |
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From: Alex T. <al...@tw...> - 2004-06-22 17:05:25
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At 11:40 22/06/2004 -0400, Schollnick, Benjamin wrote: >Folks, > > > Ditto - I remember this bug too, but like Steve, I can't > > remember what the fix was. :-( > >7.3.1 Has seemed to clear up the problem.... Cool ! >But I have noticed a few things.... > >* There seems to be no way for the user to resize the dialog/HTML window Sorry - can't answer this one (yet) >* Scroll Bars, I do not see a way to force the scroll bars to be active...? > Do I have to explicitly add scroll bars? No - they'll appear if needed. >Also... > >* HTMLWindow requires a .html file to be passed to it? When I attempted to > use a string, it pops up a dialog window reporting that's a invalid > file... If you want to use a string passed in, you MUST have the very first character be a "<" Pythoncard's HTMLWindow class checks the first char, and if it's not a "<" it assumes it's a file name and uses that instead. [ Hmmm - I think this will maybe change some day :-] I changed my example to use an HTMLwindow, and the code in mydialog.py to be > def __init__(self, parent, txt=''): > model.CustomDialog.__init__(self, parent) > self.components.HtmlWindow1.text = "<html><body>some <b>text</b> > here" > and that worked OK. Otherwise, it treats the string as a file - I changed my code in mydialog.py to > def __init__(self, parent, txt=''): > model.CustomDialog.__init__(self, parent) > self.components.HtmlWindow1.text = "calendar.html" calendar.html was an existing HTML file. You could use this, writing the string to a tmp file to use HTMLWindow -- Alex. |
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From: Schollnick, B. <Ben...@us...> - 2004-06-22 17:34:30
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> >* HTMLWindow requires a .html file to be passed to it? When > I attempted to > > use a string, it pops up a dialog window reporting > that's a invalid > > file... > > If you want to use a string passed in, you MUST have the very first > character be a "<" > > Pythoncard's HTMLWindow class checks the first char, and if > it's not a "<" > it assumes it's a file name and uses that instead. [ Hmmm - I > think this > will maybe change some day :-] I didn't see that in the Docs... I'll have to double check, maybe I missed this... But.... I just fixed it, and it is indeed working.... - Benjamin |
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From: Alex T. <al...@tw...> - 2004-06-22 18:17:09
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At 13:29 22/06/2004 -0400, Schollnick, Benjamin wrote: >I didn't see that in the Docs... I'll have to double check, maybe >I missed this... But.... Me neither - I doubt it's in the docs. I was taking a look at the source code, to see if there was a different parameter (attribute) to use to pass in a string, and found this. That's why I like Pythoncard - the source is there if I want to look at it. Not that I can understand it all yet, but I'll get there eventually (probably a few days before there's a new release and it all changes :-) >I just fixed it, and it is indeed working.... Cool - let us know how it goes .... -- Alex. |
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From: Alex T. <al...@tw...> - 2004-06-21 20:52:28
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At 10:02 21/06/2004 -0400, Schollnick, Benjamin wrote:
>Maybe a silly question... But I do not see a easy way to make a
>custom dialog?
>
>I guess I could power up resourceditor, make a "second" application
>that looks like a custom dialog...
>
>But I would think there has to be a simple way to do that?
Yes, it's pretty easy ....
Fire up the resourceEditor
Click on File/New... Dialog Template
Move the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons down to make space
Add a new Component/TextArea - call it something imaginative (TextArea1 in
my case)
Make it a suitable size, and set its font to Courier
File/Save As ... mydialog.rsrc.py
(see below)
This also saves a file mydialog.py - edit this, to take an extra parameter
"txt" and put it into self.components.TextArea1.text before displaying the
dialog
(see below)
And then in your program simply call it as
result = mydialog.myDialog(self, thetextstring)
>The goal here is:
>
> * Switch to a monospaced font. The Scrolled Window font is
> completely ruining any "table" design that I setup due
> to the non-monospaced font...
>
> I just looked again and there is no wxpython nor pythoncard
> documentation that talks about setting up the font for those
> dialogs...
Courier font - see example
> * Maybe some other font "goodies"...
Don't see any easy way ...
> HTML would be nice, but is not necessary....
Make it a HTMLWindow instead of a TextArea
example.rsrc.py by doing more or less what I described above
{'type':'CustomDialog',
'name':'Template',
'title':'Dialog Template',
'position':(519, 120),
'size':(342, 301),
'components': [
{'type':'TextArea',
'name':'TextArea1',
'position':(10, 10),
'size':(309, 177),
'alignment':'left',
'font':{'faceName': 'Courier', 'family': 'sansSerif', 'size': 8},
'text':'this is sample\ntext to show\nit is constant
width\nmmmmmmmmmmmmmm\niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii\n',
},
{'type':'Button',
'id':5100,
'name':'btnOK',
'position':(75, 204),
'label':'OK',
},
{'type':'Button',
'id':5101,
'name':'btnCancel',
'position':(177, 203),
'label':'Cancel',
},
] # end components
} # end CustomDialog
corresponding mydialog.py (note - slight editing needed to get this -
basically just fixup the parameters and add the setting of
self.components.TextArea1.text)
from PythonCardPrototype import model
class MyDialog(model.CustomDialog):
def __init__(self, parent, txt=''):
model.CustomDialog.__init__(self, parent)
self.components.TextArea1.text = txt
# if some special setup is necessary, do it here
# example from samples/dialogs/minimalDialog.py
# self.components.field1.text = txt
#def myDialog(parent, txt):
def myDialog(parent, txt):
dlg = MyDialog(parent, txt)
dlg.showModal()
result = {'accepted':dlg.accepted()}
# stick your results into the result dictionary here
# example from samples/dialogs/minimalDialog.py
# result['text'] = dlg.components.field1.text
dlg.destroy()
return result
and finally the code snippet from the program itself (I added a button
"showdialog" to trigger it)
def on_showdialog_mouseClick(self, event):
result = mydialog.myDialog(self, self.thestring)
print result
and sure enough it comes up, and is in Courier font.
Hope this helps
-- Alex.
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