Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-14 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:33:13AM -0700, Paul McNett wrote: > On 10/14/11 8:03 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > > > >> > Where does this have to go in my AppWizard generated code? > > I'll let Paul handle that question - I haven't worked with AppWizard > > code in a very long time. > > Code generated

Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-14 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:03:44AM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > > It doesn't > > work when I put it in ui/GrdLog.py (the application is called log). If > > I put:- > > > >self.bindEvent(dabo.dEvents.KeyDown, self.handleKey) > > > > then handleKey gets called for non-printing characters but not f

Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-14 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 07:26:22AM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 14, 2011, at 5:19 AM, Chris G wrote: > > >self.bindEvent(dabo.dEvents.Hit, self.handleHit) - I can't get my > >mind round "but in Dabo we've simplified it so that these actions > &g

Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-14 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:33:51PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 13, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Chris G wrote: > > > However I need some pointers to more documentation:- > > > >What parameters are passed to the callback function, the new > > doc

Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-13 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:14:48PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Paul McNett wrote: > > >> Wouldn't it be reasonable for TAB to move between records in the Browse > >> view as it already does in the Edit view? > > > > grid.TabNavigates = False > > > > That should be all y

Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-13 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:10:55PM -0700, Paul McNett wrote: > On 10/13/11 1:57 PM, Chris G wrote: > > Wouldn't it be reasonable for TAB to move between records in the Browse > > view as it already does in the Edit view? > > grid.TabNavigates = False > Yes, that na

Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-13 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:58:33PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Chris G wrote: > > > I'm still digging around in the event handling to find where to add > > events for using the tab key for moving from column to column (and, > > hopefully,

Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-13 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 01:18:02PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 13, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Paul McNett wrote: > > > There are cases for editable grids. You need to do two things: > > > > 1) set grid.Column.Editable = True > > 2) set grid.Editable = True > > > > Find the appwizard-generated code i

Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-13 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:08:51AM -0700, Paul McNett wrote: > On 10/13/11 7:38 AM, Chris G wrote: > > Finally to the question - is it possible to have a form/view of my table > > that looks like the Browse tab view of the table but allows me to edit > > (and add to) the recor

[dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

2011-10-13 Thread Chris G
I discovered dabo a couple of years ago (version 0.9.2) and played with it for a while but never actually got to grips with using it. Since then I have learned some more Python for various reasons and now I've come back to dabo with a specific requirement. So, I have downloaded and installed vers

Re: [dabo-users] Is there any documentation of daboserver anywhere?

2009-12-11 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:40:06AM +, Miguel Lopes wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:16 AM, John wrote: > > On Thursday 10 December 2009 01:44:55 pm Chris G wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:32:01PM +, Chris G wrote: > >> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 0

Re: [dabo-users] Is there any documentation of daboserver anywhere?

2009-12-11 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 07:47:47PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Dec 10, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Miguel Lopes wrote: > > > There's either a webpage or a pdf somewhere (trac, wiki?), I can't > > remember where. It's titled "Creating a Web Application with Dabo". I > > guess Ed wrote it so he could point it

Re: [dabo-users] Is there any documentation of daboserver anywhere?

2009-12-10 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:32:01PM +, Chris G wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:40:29PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > > I noticed on the download page the following:- > > > > If you plan on creating Dabo web applications, you need to create > > a Pylons app nam

Re: [dabo-users] Is there any documentation of daboserver anywhere?

2009-12-10 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:40:29PM +, Chris G wrote: > I noticed on the download page the following:- > > If you plan on creating Dabo web applications, you need to create > a Pylons app named 'daboserver' and replace its 'daboserver' > subdirect

[dabo-users] Is there any documentation of daboserver anywhere?

2009-12-10 Thread Chris G
I noticed on the download page the following:- If you plan on creating Dabo web applications, you need to create a Pylons app named 'daboserver' and replace its 'daboserver' subdirectory with the 'daboserver' directory you downloaded. ... but I can't find anything further about dabose

Re: [dabo-users] Installation problem (on xubuntu 9.10, linux)

2009-12-10 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:03:26PM +, Chris G wrote: > When I run rdiff-backup I get no errors, when I run DaboDemo.py I get:- > > chris$ python DaboDemo.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "DaboDemo.py", line 7, in > import dabo

[dabo-users] Installation problem (on xubuntu 9.10, linux)

2009-12-10 Thread Chris G
I am back with dabo at last and have a project I want to develop. This is a 'clean' installation where there hasn't been a dabo before but I do have lots of python applications installed and working. I have followed the instructions at:- http://wiki.dabodev.com/InstallationOnLinux I'm runnin

Re: [dabo-users] Warning about BasePrefKey

2008-10-07 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:23:11PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Chris G wrote: > > > 1 - I'm getting a warning message saying:- > > > >Dabo Info Log: Mon Oct 6 21:29:40 2008: WARNING: No BasePrefKey > > has been set for this appli

[dabo-users] Warning about BasePrefKey

2008-10-06 Thread Chris G
I'm impressed - I've copied my accounting system tables across from Access into mySql and I've actually created a minimal Dabo application which shows the invoices. It hasn't been too much effort and I haven't had any of those "what on earth does that error mean" moments, I could actually understa

Re: [dabo-users] The "Help" in ClassDesigner.py - how to get rid of it?

2008-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:38:48PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 5, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > > >> Linux, Fedora 8, fvwm window manager. > > > > OK, I guess it must be fvwm then. On Mac, Windows and Gtk, all the > > windows have a title bar with a close button in it. Guess I'll hav

Re: [dabo-users] The "Help" in ClassDesigner.py - how to get rid of it?

2008-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:30:02PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 5, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Chris G wrote: > > > There isn't a close button. What pops up when I click on help is a > > blue window with a violet pane in the middle (where the Dabo version > > etc. appear)

Re: [dabo-users] The "Help" in ClassDesigner.py - how to get rid of it?

2008-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:53:47PM +0200, Uwe Grauer wrote: > Chris G wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:01:25PM +0200, Uwe Grauer wrote: > >> Chris G wrote: > >>> When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops > >>> up

Re: [dabo-users] The "Help" in ClassDesigner.py - how to get rid of it?

2008-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:01:25PM +0200, Uwe Grauer wrote: > Chris G wrote: > > When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops > > up, quite normal. However there seems to be no way to get rid of it, > > how can I close it and get

Re: [dabo-users] The "Help" in ClassDesigner.py - how to get rid of it?

2008-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 11:58:57AM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 5, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Chris G wrote: > > > When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops > > up, quite normal. However there seems to be no way to get rid of it, > > how c

[dabo-users] The "Help" in ClassDesigner.py - how to get rid of it?

2008-10-05 Thread Chris G
When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops up, quite normal. However there seems to be no way to get rid of it, how can I close it and get control back to the main window? Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do? It doesn't seem to copy anything to the clipboard. --

Re: [dabo-users] Lots of Gtk-CRITICAL errors from ClassDesigner.py

2008-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 04:11:52PM +0200, Uwe Grauer wrote: > Chris G wrote: > > When I start ClassDesigner.py from a terminal window I get lots (i.e. > > hundreds) of errors as follows:- > > > > (python:5498): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_add_accelerator: assertion

[dabo-users] Lots of Gtk-CRITICAL errors from ClassDesigner.py

2008-10-05 Thread Chris G
When I start ClassDesigner.py from a terminal window I get lots (i.e. hundreds) of errors as follows:- (python:5498): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_add_accelerator: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed While this doesn't seem to stop ClassDesigner.py from working it is a bit distracting/a

Re: [dabo-users] Opening a database from the Dabo Class Designer

2008-10-02 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 07:33:41AM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:29 AM, Chris G wrote: > > > Ah, that's a bit easier! :-) > > I thought that it might be. > > > However I can't seem to get a connection to my database. I've create

Re: [dabo-users] Opening a database from the Dabo Class Designer

2008-10-02 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:01:59PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Chris G wrote: > > > Now I need to connect to a database and I'm a bit stuck. In Linux do > > I need to create a cnxml file myself? That's not too bad, I've copied > >

[dabo-users] Opening a database from the Dabo Class Designer

2008-10-01 Thread Chris G
Well after talking about rewriting my Access application using Dabo way back in June I have finally got around to starting! :-) First hurdle after installing was working out what to actually run to get something to appear (on Linux) but I've managed that bit. I've added some panels and sizers an

Re: [dabo-users] Newbie (to Dabo) converting an MS Access application, some questions

2008-05-27 Thread Chris G
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:47:35AM +1000, Gary Thompson wrote: > Chris, > I hope you have success in completing a migration to GNU / > Linux based systems. > > Is there any reason to choose one database engine rather than > > another? It's only a single user application, no comple

Re: [dabo-users] Newbie (to Dabo) converting an MS Access application, some questions

2008-05-27 Thread Chris G
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:39:18AM -0600, Nate Lowrie wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am hoping to convert an MS Access application to Dabo to remove just > > about my last need for running MS Windows. The Dabo vers

[dabo-users] Newbie (to Dabo) converting an MS Access application, some questions

2008-05-27 Thread Chris G
I am hoping to convert an MS Access application to Dabo to remove just about my last need for running MS Windows. The Dabo version will run on my home desktop system which is currently running Fedora 8. I have Dabo installed and running already but haven't really had any time to play with it much