I should probably send this to the entire list... On Feb 6, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Peter Drake wrote:
> Yes, and you're the third person to have suggested it today. (Nice > book, by the way!) > > Three things prevent me from using your package as-is: > > 1) The graphics window appears BEHIND the Console window (which in > turn appears behind the IDLE window). > > 2) Once the main loop starts, you can't enter new commands into the > IDLE shell. > > 3) It is object-oriented, confusing students with the combination > of regularFunctions() and object.methods(). I'd just as soon avoid > this if possible. > > If anyone can direct me to a way around the first two problems I > could, of course, write wrapper functions to deal with the third. > > Thanks, > > Peter Drake > Assistant Professor of Computer Science > Lewis & Clark College > http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/ > > > > > On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:23 PM, John Zelle wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> Just a quick question for you. I am wondering if you have checked >> out the >> simple graphics package that I built on top of Tkinter for doing >> these sorts >> of simple manipulations. It's also name graphics.py. If you >> haven't seen it, >> you can check it out at: http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python. >> It's probably that case that it doesn't meet your needs, but if it >> does it >> would keep you from aving to "reinvent the wheel." >> >> --John >> >> >> >> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 1:03 pm, Peter Drake wrote: >>> Okay, so I've got a simple system worked up that allows students >>> (these are "CS0" non-CS-majors) to manipulate objects with commands >>> in the IDLE command window. The file is attached. >>> >>> The next thing I'd like to do is define a function mouse() that >>> starts the main loop, waits for a mouse click, stops the main loop, >>> and returns the coordinates of the mouse click. Any suggestions? >> >> -- >> John M. Zelle, Ph.D. Wartburg College >> Professor of Computer Science Waverly, IA >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 352-8360 >> _______________________________________________ >> Edu-sig mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
