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[Pythoncard-users] Creating Wizrd type application ++

[Elan <thi...@gm...>]

Hi.I submitted a similar question last week to the gmane archives, but it
appears to have gotten lost. If it did somehow miraculously appear in
someone's email, I apologize for duplicating it here. However, I see no
trace of it anywhere ...

1. I would like to implement a wizard like application under PythonCard.
I.e. a series of input forms that include information and instructions are
to be displayed, one input form at a time, with  "Next", "Previous",
"Finish", "Cancel" buttons at the bottom.
Does there exist an example for this kind of application?
If not, what would be the recommended way of implementing the successive
display of forms? (I do not want to use tabs, because I want to force the
user to navigate exclusively via navigation buttons at the bottom of the
screen.)

2. Also, I will want to dynamically lay out a form consisting of text labels
that may vary and that are loaded from a database table, as well as choice
boxes populated with applicable values for each text label. The number of
text labels/choice boxes may vary, depending on the structured of the
database table.

Any pointers and advice regarding both questions would be highly
appreciated.

Thanks.
Elan

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Creating Wizrd type application ++

[Peter D. <pyd...@gm...>]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Elan <thi...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi.
> I submitted a similar question last week to the gmane archives, but it
> appears to have gotten lost. If it did somehow miraculously appear in
> someone's email, I apologize for duplicating it here. However, I see no
> trace of it anywhere ...
> 1. I would like to implement a wizard like application under PythonCard.
> I.e. a series of input forms that include information and instructions are
> to be displayed, one input form at a time, with  "Next", "Previous",
> "Finish", "Cancel" buttons at the bottom.
> Does there exist an example for this kind of application?
> If not, what would be the recommended way of implementing the successive
> display of forms? (I do not want to use tabs, because I want to force the
> user to navigate exclusively via navigation buttons at the bottom of the
> screen.)
> 2. Also, I will want to dynamically lay out a form consisting of text labels
> that may vary and that are loaded from a database table, as well as choice
> boxes populated with applicable values for each text label. The number of
> text labels/choice boxes may vary, depending on the structured of the
> database table.
> Any pointers and advice regarding both questions would be highly
> appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Elan

It's been a while since I used Pythoncard; I switched to Dabo a couple
of years ago, and never looked back. Wizards are very simple to create
in Dabo; in fact, some of the tools in Dabo to help you build apps are
wizards, and those tools, like all Dabo tools, are written in Dabo!

http://dabodev.com

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Re: [Pythoncard-users] Creating Wizrd type application ++

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

Elan wrote:
> 
> 1. I would like to implement a wizard like application under PythonCard. 
> I.e. a series of input forms that include information and instructions 
> are to be displayed, one input form at a time, with  "Next", "Previous", 
> "Finish", "Cancel" buttons at the bottom.
> Does there exist an example for this kind of application?
> If not, what would be the recommended way of implementing the successive 
> display of forms? (I do not want to use tabs, because I want to force 
> the user to navigate exclusively via navigation buttons at the bottom of 
> the screen.)
> 
> 2. Also, I will want to dynamically lay out a form consisting of text 
> labels that may vary and that are loaded from a database table, as well 
> as choice boxes populated with applicable values for each text label. 
> The number of text labels/choice boxes may vary, depending on the 
> structured of the database table. 
> 
> Any pointers and advice regarding both questions would be highly 
> appreciated.
> 

Hi Elan:

If you take a look at the code for the standaloneBuilder app that I 
wrote, you will find something very similar in there. I wanted a 
'wizard' style interface to use when creating a new project and I've 
done all of the things you mentioned, apart from loading text labels 
from a database.

My approach was to use a resource file for each 'page' in the wizard, to 
make it easier to make changes to an individual page. The code loads 
each of the resource files on top of each other and I use the 'userData' 
proprties to tage each component according to which wizard page it gets 
displayed on. The 'Next' and 'Back' buttons then just have to run a bit 
of code which disables one set of controls and enables another set as 
you move between pages.

I guess that loading the text labels from a database would be fairly 
trivial.

If you take a look in site-packages/PythonCard/tools/standaloneBuilder 
in your main Python install directory, the file you want to be looking 
at is customDialogs.py starting from about line 158.

There are some screen shots of my wizard in action on this page of my 
website:

http://www.linux2000.com/pm.html

Scroll down a bit to the 'Creating a new project' section.

Good luck!

> Thanks.
> Elan
> 
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