Re: [dabo-users] Dabo-users Digest, Vol 89, Issue 17

2011-11-22 Thread Peter Decker
Hi Soeren, > Actually, I am so grateful that with dabo I could get what I needed, that I > would be willing to help with the tutorials > myself, but as the author of the last post, I have to admit that there is no > knowledge that I could turn into a tutorial > yet. And please excuse the lenghty

Re: [dabo-users] [ProPython] pycon vids

2009-04-02 Thread Peter Decker
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:21 AM, Carl Karsten wrote: > >> are flowing... >> http://pycon.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc > >My Dabo session has already been posted. You can see it here: > > http://pycon.blip.tv/file/1947542/ Great job! And

Re: [dabo-users] Sizer

2009-01-08 Thread Peter Decker
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:52 AM, NMMAC wrote: [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/d

Re: [dabo-users] trying to install Dabo GUI for several days now

2008-11-03 Thread Peter Decker
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 3:32 PM, vmars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings: > I have been trying to install Dabo GUI for several days now. > When I run 'win_setup.bat' I get the result here: this pic: 'python setup.py > install' http://www.flickr.com/photos/vmars956/ . > [WinXp sp2 , Python ,

Re: [dabo-users] Expanding Tree Nodes

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Decker
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, there were wxPython-level methods for exactly this. We just > never wrapped them. > > Done. Wow! You guys are FAST! -- # p.d. ___ Post Messages to: Da

Re: [dabo-users] Expanding Tree Nodes

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Decker
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giving the user a high level of control should be paramount. If the user > were to expand a branch, and then collapse some subbranches, collapse > the branch they were working on and then go back to it, the state set by >

Re: [dabo-users] Expanding Tree Nodes

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Decker
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Nate Lowrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > def expandBranch(node): > node.expand() > for ChildNode in node.Children: > expandBranch(ChildNode) > > expandBranch(rootNodeOfBranch) Thanks; I had cooked up something like this already. I was wondering if there wa

[dabo-users] Expanding Tree Nodes

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Decker
I'm using dTreeView to display hierarchichal information. I can see how to expand a single node using expand(), and all nodes in the tree with expandAll(), but how do I expand a single branch? In other words, expand a node and all of its child nodes, while leaving the rest of the tree unchanged? -

Re: [dabo-users] Standalone dabo games not running

2007-11-29 Thread Peter Decker
On Nov 29, 2007 11:54 AM, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Come on Peter, please don't make it worse. Personal attacks just do not > belong here. Exactly my point. The problem is taking a technical discussion and turning it into a personal attack. When someone does that once, that's one t

Re: [dabo-users] Standalone dabo games not running

2007-11-29 Thread Peter Decker
On Nov 29, 2007 9:54 AM, Uwe Grauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A file like main.py in the bubblet directory isn't either. > I really do not understand your childish attitudes. It's about time you wrote your own project then. I've been reading your condescending messages for some time now, and

Re: [dabo-users] Name That Tool!

2007-07-17 Thread Peter Decker
On 7/16/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While things are still very much at the design stage, I'm hoping to > start writing some code that will at least test some of the ideas I > have for the upcoming IDE tool. I want to start a whole new project > for this, so I thought it would

Re: [dabo-users] Survey: Experiences with Subversion

2007-07-11 Thread Peter Decker
On 7/11/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an informal survey for anyone who is using Subversion to > keep up-to-date with the trunk, or latest development version of > Dabo. If you use the 'stable' version (i.e., the released version, > such as 0.8.0, 0.7.1, etc., this does

Re: [dabo-users] Class Designer enhancements

2007-06-07 Thread Peter Decker
On 6/7/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It wasn't a Windows thing; I just forgot to commit the changes to > the DesignerXmlConverter. > > It should be working fine now. Wow, that was fast! It's looking good now on Windows XP. -- # p.d. ___

Re: [dabo-users] Class Designer enhancements

2007-06-07 Thread Peter Decker
On 6/6/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, after a few weeks of working on this, I've finally gotten things > to where they are working smoothly. I just committed a whole bunch of > changes both to the framework and the IDE stuff. The main > improvements to the Class Designer are:

Re: [dabo-users] Dabo - Font* properties

2007-06-03 Thread Peter Decker
On 6/3/07, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you trying to be annoying, or does it just come naturally to you? > > I find Carl hilarious; he makes me laugh and does actually bring up some > good points and foster beneficial discussion. I don't share your sense of humor. All I hear is

Re: [dabo-users] Dabo - Font* properties

2007-06-03 Thread Peter Decker
On 6/3/07, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A large part of my Pycon 2007 > > presentation was about this very fact. That is never going to change > > as long as I'm part of Dabo. > > I too have no plans on changing pycon 2007. Are you trying to be annoying, or does it just come natur

Re: [dabo-users] Simple GUI with interrelated controls

2007-06-02 Thread Peter Decker
On 6/1/07, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why don't you code a framework with a single function: > > carlFramework.DWIM() > ;) rofl! +1 QOTW -- # p.d. ___ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.c

Re: [dabo-users] Filtering setAll - followup 2

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Decker
On 5/1/07, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Speed up? Shouldn't we get it to work before we start optimizing?? > > No. > > Carl K Wow, I'm sure glad that you're not running the project!! -- # p.d. ___ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@le

Re: [dabo-users] Add PageFrame

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Decker
On 3/2/07, Douglas Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see the save as subclasses in the file pull down menu. If you select 'New', you can set the class to 'Panel' instead of 'Form'. This will create a new panel class that you can later add to your pages or your forms. -- # p.d.

Re: [dabo-users] Add PageFrame

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Decker
On 3/2/07, Douglas Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the advantages/disadvantages of using: > >a. multi page screen using the Paged Controls -> Add PageFrame with let's > say 5 pages. > > or > >b. one main screen calling other screens. > > I am sure I have not learned enou

Re: [dabo-users] How to Retrieve Data Via Primary Key

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Decker
On 3/2/07, Bill Bedford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Ed -- somehow I was expecting a collision with the formatString > '%', but that's Dabo for you -- think too hard and you'll get it > wrong:-) My experience exactly. Coming from wxPython, I tended to think things were much more complex th

Re: [dabo-users] Re: RFC: Intro to Dabo slideshow

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Decker
On 1/29/07, Nate Lowrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your looking for groups to market to, try WxPython developers. > That's where I came from. They might not care as much about the DB > and Biz layers, but the UI layer to them will be far more of a reason > to switch. I can think of quite a n

Re: [dabo-users] Wiki switch

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Decker
On 1/19/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just finishing up. Guess I should have sent that email when the > switch was complete. Just took a look at the new site for the first time, and I really like it! -- # p.d. ___ Post Messages t

Re: [dabo-users] Nitpick, App Wizard

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Decker
On 1/5/07, Vince Teachout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does the body text now tell you to click "Yes" instead of "OK?" > >> > > > > Yes. > > > OK. Cancel!! :) -- # p.d. ___ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: h

Re: [dabo-users] System Beep

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Decker
On 1/2/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a request to add a beep when the user inputs an incorrect value > > in one of my screens. I just learned that wxPython has access to this > > by calling wx.Bell(). Is there anything like this in Dabo? > > No, but that's a no-brainer

[dabo-users] System Beep

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Decker
I had a request to add a beep when the user inputs an incorrect value in one of my screens. I just learned that wxPython has access to this by calling wx.Bell(). Is there anything like this in Dabo? -- # p.d. ___ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com

Re: [dabo-users] Dabo Zope Zwiki and Plone?

2006-11-18 Thread Peter Decker
On 11/18/06, Nate Lowrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As much as people predict that web application will take over Desktop apps, > this is a trend that I just don't see happening. Desktop applications will > always remain. Because of applications like Zope and Djanago, I think that > people hav

Re: [dabo-users] Re: py skills

2006-11-11 Thread Peter Decker
On 11/11/06, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want a taste of what I will need when (i think) the dabo.ui doesn't work and > (i think) I need to debug. which (i think) will never happen, right? :) I've had good experience with Dabo so far, so I think you shouldn't have to worry too mu

Re: [dabo-users] Re: py skills

2006-11-11 Thread Peter Decker
On 11/11/06, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I figure the same applies to the GUI choices: get a handle on the ones Dabo > uses. Yes and no. Dabo uses wxPython, but you really are not at an advantage learning how wxPython does things, because it is very un-Pythonic. It's really a very

Re: [dabo-users] Re: py skills

2006-11-11 Thread Peter Decker
On 11/11/06, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking maybe a good idea would be to cover a bit of GUI/db programming. > the equivalent of VFP's use;browse. > > From what I have seen, the GUI stuff in python is much different than VFP > (and > I am guessing most MS gui) - seems th

Re: [dabo-users] Re: py skills

2006-11-11 Thread Peter Decker
On 11/11/06, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 'core' python language (what you get without any INCLUDEs) is a pretty > small > set of commands and concepts. I am hoping that can be covered. I am guessing > there are a few modules that we should touch on - like data access and gui.

Re: [dabo-users] Downlodabel api documentation

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Decker
On 11/3/06, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since the docs are auto-generated, it doesn't make a lot of sense (other than convenience) to actually save the doc pages to source control. Instead, you could generate them yourself: svn checkout http://svn.dabodev.com/dabodoc/trunk/api dabodo

Re: [dabo-users] Downlodabel api documentation

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Decker
On 11/2/06, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, I'll do that. I'm also going to remove epydoc completely and add dabo.lib. Thanks - I don't need to use the docs very often, but when I do they're invaluable. Maybe you could make them updatable via Subversion, too? This way when I updat