On Aug 4, 7:12 am, John Posner <jjpos...@optimum.net> wrote: > > ... I would also venture to say a key-map > > of sorts that is available thru the help menu where one could push an > > "Up" button, or a "rotate" button, and have the proper command > > inserted in the prompt, and then have the command execute, may also > > help make the connections here, a sort of *real* Visual Basic > > programming -- sorry Microsoft :P > > Along these lines, see my "ClixTur" application atwww.jjposner.net. > It's a point-and-click front end to the standard Python turtle module, > implementing only a very small subset of the turtle commands. As you > click, the "real turtle commands" appear in a transcript window. You can > then save (and maybe edit) and replay the transcript. > > Ram, I like a lot of what you've done. Could you talk about your > decision to embed the standard turtle module (which is implemented in > Tkinter) in a wxPython application? > > -John
Certainly John- although I have not embedded the turtle module at all, I just wrote my own. This was actually quite a short process - What took the most time was developing the shell, which is a fork of PyShell. The original PyShell controls the same process it is run on, but my fork controls a different process (created by the multiprocessing package.) That took a lot of time. I actually created an independent package for it, called "shelltoprocess", which is a subfolder in PythonTurtle's source, so now anyone can use it for their own project. I am proud to say that this shell has some features that IDLE should envy. If you're asking WHY I put it in a wxPython application, the answer is pretty much what "r" said: To make it like any other "over the counter" Windows application, making people feel more comfortable with it. Also, not requiring them to install Python+packages, but just PythonTurtle. Ram. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
