On 7/27/10 5:44 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > I think what's going on here is that when the application started up, > it didn't find anything in the 'biz' directory, so there was nothing > to import; hence, 'self.Application.biz' was None, instead of a > module reference. The reason for that is that Dabo does a lot of > "magic" stuff when it starts up to get all those references into > handy namespaces for you, but there is no good way to update them > while the app is running. If you launch the Class Designer now, do > you still get that error?
Yes. > If so, open a Command Window (ctrl-d), and > type 'self.Application.biz', then press Enter. It should either print > a module reference, or nothing. If it's nothing, then it seems that > something is not quite right at startup. Python 2.6.5 (r265:79359, Mar 24 2010, 01:32:55) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> self.Application.biz >>> > The 'self.requery()' line really should be in the afterInit() method > of the form. It probably doesn't make a huge difference, but you > generally want to make sure that the form is fully instantiated > before you call methods that might affect it. > Ah... fixed that; for some reason I'm having a lot harder time following this tutorial than say, the Step-by-step. Seems like I get ahead of things, and then when I see the next screen shot it doesn't look quite like what I have - until I go back and re-read things c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y ;) and put them right. Probably more a loose connection between the screen and keyboard (i.e. the user) than anything else... _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/i2nooh$6f...@dough.gmane.org
