Re: [Tutor] Project help
On 13/10/12 15:55, Brett Dailey wrote: I'm working on a few projects and need some help. [...] Hi Brett, and welcome! We like to see that people make an effort to solve their problems. This is a list for learning about Python the language, not a list for doing people's homework for them. Please ask *specific* questions. One question per email. Try to make them good questions rather than bad: the more specific you are, the more likely someone will know the answer and can tell you. Bad question: Here are three different projects and thirty five different things that I need to do. I need help. (Answer: I hope you find some.) Good question: I have to set the colour of text to shades of grey, starting with black and fading to white. How do I do this? Even better question: I am using PyGame with Python 2.7 on Windows and I have a field with some text in it. I need to set the colour of each line to a different shade of gray, starting with black at the bottom of the field and fading to white at the top. Here is my third attempt to get it working, but the text still looks black to me. What am I doing wrong? As a beginner, we're willing to cut you a lot of slack if you show that you've made an effort. If you don't, we're likely to just ignore you. Even if you have *no clue whatsoever* how to start on the question, try to ask specific questions that show you've at least tried to think about it: - how do I show text in a field? - how do I make the text scroll? - how do I change the colour of text? - how do I count the number of lines of text in the field? - I know there are 35 lines of text and the top line needs to be white and the bottom one needs to be black, but I have no clue how to make the intermediate lines fade from black to white. etc. Unfortunately, I know very little about graphics programming in Python, so I have very little clue how to do this either. But if you come back with some good questions, and preferably show us the code you've already tried, I'm sure somebody else can help you. Good luck! -- Steven ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Project help
On 13/10/12 16:54, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: Do your own homework. Oooh, nasty. Next you'll be using ... sarcasm. Perhaps even ... irony. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygg2KlicnOQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evj24bXakqg -- Steven ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Project help
On 13/10/2012 06:54, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: Do your own homework. -- Devin Manners if you don't mind. We don't want to drive newbies away from Python by being harsh towards them. So it's do your own homework, please :) -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Project help
On 13/10/12 05:55, Brett Dailey wrote: I'm working on a few projects and need some help. We don;t do homework but we can offer suggestions. But first we need more detail. What is your programming language/version/OS? What GUI framework are you using? What is your skill level? Can you use other languages? Credits 1. Create a list of strings. Make sure your program will work with any number of strings. Can you do this bit? If not you are in deep trouble! 2. Make this text appear at the bottom of the screen and “crawl” to the top. Can you create a GUI 'screen' - aka window? Can you make the text appear at the bottom? Can you make it appear at the middle and top? Can you make the text disappear? If so you have all the components you need to do the crawling bit The crawl should be at a slow speed (~20 pixels/s) and should run at the same rate on any computer. Can you program a delay in your GUI framework? 3. It should fade from black (near the bottom) to white, and then back to black (at the top). Can you change the colour of text in your GUI? 4. The program should end when the user pressed escape or hits the “Quit-box” Can you program commands and bind them to keys/buttons? Here's the second one: Lets deal with one thing at a time... -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Project help
I'm working on a few projects and need some help. Here's what the first one needs to do: Credits 1. Create a list of strings. Make sure your program will work with any number of strings. 2. Make this text appear at the bottom of the screen and “crawl” to the top. The crawl should be at a slow speed (~20 pixels/s) and should run at the same rate on any computer. 3. It should fade from black (near the bottom) to white, and then back to black (at the top). 4. The program should end when the user pressed escape or hits the “Quit-box” Here's the second one: Paint Program 1. Display a canvas inset from the main screen. 2. Display a palette at the bottom. Allow the user to adjust the RGB current color. 3. Use the mouse scroll-wheel to adjust the brush size. 4. If the user clicks within the canvas area, draw with the current brush color/size 5. If the user presses “s” save (just the) canvas to a file (“output.jpg”) 6. Bonus: include “stamps” (sprites) that can be dragged onto the canvas. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! These have been giving me some trouble. Also, if you can show me some of the code that would be great! Thank you!!___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Project help
Do your own homework. -- Devin On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Brett Dailey bardockarng...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm working on a few projects and need some help. Here's what the first one needs to do: Credits 1. Create a list of strings. Make sure your program will work with any number of strings. 2. Make this text appear at the bottom of the screen and “crawl” to the top. The crawl should be at a slow speed (~20 pixels/s) and should run at the same rate on any computer. 3. It should fade from black (near the bottom) to white, and then back to black (at the top). 4. The program should end when the user pressed escape or hits the “Quit-box” Here's the second one: Paint Program 1. Display a canvas inset from the main screen. 2. Display a palette at the bottom. Allow the user to adjust the RGB current color. 3. Use the mouse scroll-wheel to adjust the brush size. 4. If the user clicks within the canvas area, draw with the current brush color/size 5. If the user presses “s” save (just the) canvas to a file (“output.jpg”) 6. Bonus: include “stamps” (sprites) that can be dragged onto the canvas. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! These have been giving me some trouble. Also, if you can show me some of the code that would be great! Thank you!! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
