Re: [dabo-users] Trying to open a report but no-go.

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Wednesday 02 January 2008, schreef Paul McNett: Dennis Meulensteen wrote: Hi all, I am trying to open a report from a button in my gui. The code I have (called when the button is pressed) is this: def writeReport01(self): rw = self.ReportWriter app = self.Application

Re: [dabo-users] Trying to open a report but no-go.

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Thursday 03 January 2008, schreef Uwe Grauer: You should have installed one of: gpdf, kpdf, evince, acroread, xpdf, firefox, mozilla-firefox I have kpdf, firefox and acroread on my machine. If Dabo supports all those alternatives then perhaps the message is just a warning after all. Dennis

Re: [dabo-users] Trying to open a report but no-go.

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Thursday 03 January 2008, schreef Paul McNett: Uwe Grauer wrote: Dennis Meulensteen wrote: Op Thursday 03 January 2008, schreef Uwe Grauer: You should have installed one of: gpdf, kpdf, evince, acroread, xpdf, firefox, mozilla-firefox I have kpdf, firefox and acroread on my

[dabo-users] Trying to open a report but no-go.

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Hi all, I am trying to open a report from a button in my gui. The code I have (called when the button is pressed) is this: def writeReport01(self): rw = self.ReportWriter app = self.Application rw.ReportFormFile = os.path.join(app.HomeDirectory,report01.rfxml)

[dabo-users] Q: How to make a login dialog?

2007-12-28 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Hi, my app holds lots of very sensitive personal data and I would like to not have it auto-connect to the database (mySQL). I built it using the Class Designer, according to the two-part tutorial video. From there I tweaked lots of aspects with a lot of help from this list. What I want to do

[dabo-users] General Class Designer strangeness.

2007-12-20 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Hi, I have been dabbling in Dabo for about a week now and I have noticed that the ClassDesigner won't start the first time... ps -Al reveals that python is running, but has no child processes. The console shows about 100 errors, but those are just the usual warnings: (python:4382):

[dabo-users] ERR: Class Designer crash on copy-paste.

2007-12-20 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Thursday 20 December 2007, schreef Ed Leafe: The problem with developing something like this is that it will run great on our systems, so we release it. But until others report the problems they are finding on their systems, it will never improve to the level it needs to be. So

Re: [dabo-users] General Class Designer strangeness.

2007-12-20 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Thursday 20 December 2007, schreef Ed Leafe: When I run it a second or third time and so on, it throws about 400 errors and starts up just fine. Python still running (of course). Are you starting it by running 'python ClassDesigner.py' from the 'ide' directory? I see those

Re: [dabo-users] any way to enable word wrap on table columns?

2007-12-19 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Tuesday 18 December 2007, schreef Paul McNett: Dennis Meulensteen wrote: Hi, I was wondering, is there any way to activate word-wrap on a table column? I have two columns, a datetime and a text note. The note needs word wrap badly in order to be legible. Any ideas? I can't find any

[dabo-users] object model clarification needed

2007-12-19 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Hi all, can someone please explain how the object model works? I know that I can use the Class Designer's Object Info panel to view the relationships between graphical objects. I know how to use self.Form to get to those objects and their properties. But how on earth do I create a button

Re: [dabo-users] any way to enable word wrap on table columns?

2007-12-19 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Wednesday 19 December 2007, schreef Ed Leafe: On Dec 19, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Dennis Meulensteen wrote: Aaargh. Now you're tempting me to try the SVN version again... It's in Web Update now. OK, I tried web update, but failed miserably... Platform: GTK Python Version: 2.5.1

Re: [dabo-users] any way to enable word wrap on table columns?

2007-12-19 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Wednesday 19 December 2007, schreef Ed Leafe: On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: I noticed that but it doesn't seem to do anything. Is there a specific place I would need to put this in order for it to work? I tried the form's afterInit and the Grid's also but those do

Re: [dabo-users] any way to enable word wrap on table columns?

2007-12-19 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Wednesday 19 December 2007, schreef Ed Leafe: On Dec 19, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Dennis Meulensteen wrote: OK, I tried web update, but failed miserably... Have you successfully run Web Update in the last day or so? No, I haven't tried since I had the permission problems this weekend

Re: [dabo-users] object model clarification needed

2007-12-19 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Wednesday 19 December 2007, schreef Uwe Grauer: Dennis Meulensteen wrote: But how on earth do I create a button that calls a BuzObj's SetWhere method? Dabo keeps telling me there's no such global object whenever I call the BusObj by name. Whatever I prefix it with doesn't seem to help

Re: [dabo-users] object model clarification needed

2007-12-19 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
:19 AM, Dennis Meulensteen wrote: I know that I can use the Class Designer's Object Info panel to view the relationships between graphical objects. I know how to use self.Form to get to those objects and their properties. But how on earth do I create a button that calls a BuzObj's

[dabo-users] ClassDesigner lost all my code?!?

2007-12-19 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Hi, now I'm really getting depressed... I just opened up my class designer, only to notice there is no loger any code in any of the objects or their events and custom methods... I'm sorry but I don't recall seeing any errors while saving. This means I now have a nice prototype screen with no

[dabo-users] Previous work no longer runs after web update.

2007-12-18 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Hi, I received a web update yesterday but my code no longer runs from the Class Designer. It throws lots of errors. I tried two different versions and even CVS (all the way from trunk), running python setup.py install before each run. Is there some kind of make clean alternative I may need to

Re: [dabo-users] Previous work no longer runs after web update.

2007-12-18 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Tuesday 18 December 2007, schreef Ed Leafe: On Dec 18, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Dennis Meulensteen wrote: I received a web update yesterday but my code no longer runs from the Class Designer. It throws lots of errors. I tried two different versions and even CVS (all the way from trunk

[dabo-users] any way to enable word wrap on table columns?

2007-12-18 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Hi, I was wondering, is there any way to activate word-wrap on a table column? I have two columns, a datetime and a text note. The note needs word wrap badly in order to be legible. Any ideas? I can't find any relevant properties or examples anywhere. Regards, Dennis

Re: [dabo-users] web update

2007-12-14 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Thursday 13 December 2007, schreef Uwe Grauer: You can place the dabo directory anywhere under your $HOME Yes, that is what I did. and create a symlink under yourpython/site-packages. Thanks, I'll give that a shot too. I should have remembered I installed it as root. I just installed it

Re: [dabo-users] stumped adding new record!?!

2007-12-14 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Friday 14 December 2007, schreef Ed Leafe: On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Dennis Meulensteen wrote: Somehow this doesn't surprise me. I'm looking into things, I can't get it saved but I suspect I messed up in the DB somewhere. I'll report back if I suspect it is a DABO issue

Re: [dabo-users] stumped adding new record!?!

2007-12-13 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Wednesday 12 December 2007, schreef Ed Leafe: The form methods (new(), save(), etc.) default to the PrimaryBizobj, which in your case would be the parent table. To add a record to the child, the code would only be slightly different: self.Form.new(childDataSource) ...where

Re: [dabo-users] web update

2007-12-13 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Op Thursday 13 December 2007, schreef Ed Leafe: OK, I've posted a fix to subversion, and have made it available on Web Update, too. You can now incrementally search on a date, datetime, or any type. OK, so now I'm starting to feel like a total moron I accessed web update but

[dabo-users] stumped adding new record!?!

2007-12-12 Thread Dennis Meulensteen
Hi all, This is my first day using DABO and it looks very much like what I need. So a big thanks to the devs for this really nice product. I've tried searching the wiki, the web and the list-archives but can't for the life of me find any tips on how to add a button which inserts a new record in