Re: [pygtk] gdk_window_show

2000-08-22 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Jon Nelson wrote: > as bad karma as it might be to reply to one's self, I could supplement > my supplied patch with the anti-show, the 'hide', if requested. Yes, you might be deallocated if you do that: http://www.bedope.com/stories/0116.html I haven't been doing much pygt

Re: [pygtk] New snapshot

2000-06-29 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Aaron Optimizer Digulla wrote: > I, for example, cannot use gnome but I use pygtk. Therefore, > I depend on an independend pygtk package (a .tar.gz to be precise). > The reason for this is: I'm developing in a tight/secure environment > and I must restrict myself to the small

Re: [pygtk] Init trouble

2000-06-11 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, James Henstridge wrote: > > This presumes I'm using a gnome-based system, which I'm not. I've heard > > three people complaining that Glade can't open /dev/dsp. This is insane. > > Well, it would be gnome that is using esound, so I thought that was a > fairly valid asumption

Re: [pygtk] Init trouble

2000-06-11 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, James Henstridge wrote: > If you don't have esound installed on your system when compiling > gnome, it won't use it. If it was installed and you don't want gnome > to use it, start the control center and go to the sound properties > capplet and uncheck the "enable sound serv

Re: [pygtk] Init trouble

2000-06-11 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount wrote: > > Actually, I was seriously considering making a null library (that > > has all the right calls but no code). Call it "equiet" and ln -s it > > to the esound locations.:) > > Ok, so bottom line is that this is something which should b

Re: [pygtk] Init trouble

2000-06-11 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Arkaitz wrote: > I suspect this are caused by GNOME starting esd as you suggested. Does > anyone know how to disable the sound support in GNOME? Actually, I was seriously considering making a null library (that has all the right calls but no code). Call it "equiet" and ln -s

Re: [pygtk] Init trouble

2000-06-11 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
This is a stupid gnome dependency on ethe esound libraries. Which is dumb really. I don't want my GUI builders making noise. Ever. I have now, in order to get it to work at all, recompiled my version of glade and gnome-python to be gtk+ only. I will be changing my tutorial to give info on the gtk

[pygtk] Hmmm....

2000-05-31 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
I recompiled all the gnome libraries today...in order. (see http://www.baypiggies.org/10mintig.html for what I was recommending) Recompiled libglade, glade, gnome-python. Tried a gtk example: $ python glade.py *** You should really think about switching over to libglade Segmentation fault bash-

Re: [pygtk] GTK tutorial in python

2000-04-30 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Clint Hepner wrote: > Hi, I just subscribed to this list. I saw in the archives > that someone may have ported the GTK tutorial from www.gtk.org > to Python, but I haven't been able to track it down anywhere. There's links from my page on this: http://www.baypiggies.org/10m

Re: [pygtk] For he's a jolly good fellow...

2000-04-17 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Michael Lauer wrote: > * * * HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES! * * * > > And many thanks for the great amount > of work you do for the open source community! Wow, I hadn't known (just caught up with Advogato). James, please don't let the Lego Mindstorms distract you from too much for t

Re: [pygtk] BeOS pygtk (was: win32 pygtk)

2000-04-17 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Michael Lauer wrote: > While we're at the subject - since the BeOS Gtk port > seems to be evolving and Python already runs on > BeOS - anyone which is involved in porting pygtk to > BeOS ? No, but it would be interesting. I'm currently working on a MacOS Gtk+ port. I'm still

Re: [pygtk] PyQt/PyKDE Bindings

2000-03-21 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Michael Lauer wrote: > > > Hmm - I thought that especially the hand crafted stuff > > do the most work in hiding the naturally not object oriented > > nature of the native GTK language - C. One wonders what you think that the first

Re: [pygtk] glade & Gnome

2000-01-21 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Baruch Even wrote: > I've installed it before from a redhat RPM, I now tried to reinstall it > (gnome-python/pygtk) from the original package, as far as I can see > glade has gnome support and so does libglade (how can I verify it for > sure? they came from rpms). You can be

Re: [pygtk] glade & Gnome

2000-01-20 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Baruch Even wrote: > I want to use Glade to develop the UI of my app and intend to write > the app in python and ofcourse write it Gnomishly. Cool! > I found that pyGlade doesn't support Gnome objects, I would like to > know if there is a version/patch that adds support to

Re: [pygtk] Help with GnomeMDI/GtkPlug, GtkSocket

2000-01-17 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Hassan Aurag wrote: > For example, what's wrong with the following: You're using the MDI interface, the lamest interface known to mankind. :) Seriously, I don't know what the problem is, but I want to register my disparagement of this human interface abomination. -- _De

Re: [pygtk] Problem with recognizing class GnomeApp

1999-11-20 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Michael Coddington wrote: > I'm trying to pick up Python and GNOME development at the same time. > Obviously PyGnome is the way to go. However, in attempting to try out > some simple apps, I keep getting: > > Unknown widget class "GnomeApp' The code looks right -- it must

Re: [pygtk] post-only list

1999-11-15 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On 15 Nov 1999, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Does Mailman allow normal, non-web-based subscription to its lists? > To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes. It just doesn't advertise it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a body of subscribe works fine. -- _Deirdre * http://www.linux

Re: [pygtk] A whole mess of little questions/comments :)

1999-11-09 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, James Henstridge wrote: > If you have a reference to the toplevel, you can just call its destroy() > method. This will remove it from screen and destroy it. Any references > to the widget you still have will still be valid, as GtkWidgets are > reference counted objects. Of

[pygtk] A whole mess of little questions/comments :)

1999-11-09 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
1) I'm having difficulty figuring out what to do in a button callback so that the parent dialog is deleted (note, I don't want to *quit*, just delete that one window). I know which window it is, so I'm not worried about knowing that. 2) I'm using libglade and have set it up so that my wi

Re: [pygtk] Newbie to the list...a few questions..

1999-11-08 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Eron Lloyd wrote: > program I personally think will be highly beneficial, both to me and the > open-source community - a GUI frontend to the Zope (www.zope.org) > publishing system. I'm building a product in Zope, and besides wanting > to learn it's internals, need a tool such

Re: [pygtk] Ruler in vbox doesn't work

1999-10-31 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On 1 Nov 1999, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > <#include rant on C code not being able to have abstract \ > > non-instantiable classes> > > But we're using Python, aren't we? :-) Yes, but the C underlayme

Re: [pygtk] Ruler in vbox doesn't work

1999-10-31 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On 1 Nov 1999, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Is there an explanation why this trivial program doesn't work? > > #!/usr/bin/python > > import gtk > > w = gtk.GtkWindow() > vbox = gtk.GtkVBox() > vbox.add(gtk.GtkRuler()) # Error here! Educated guess after doing lots of C

Re: [pygtk] Finally getting started....

1999-10-27 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, James Henstridge wrote: > The GnomeApp is a composite widget, which already has something packed > inside it (hence the warning). You should use the set_contents method of > the GnomeApp instead to set what apears between the menubar and statusbar. > This is just one of the

[pygtk] Finally getting started....

1999-10-27 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
I'm still something of a neophyte to Gtk programming and it's a different GUI paradigm than I'm used to. I've done a fair amount of Gtk proramming in C lately (grr), but there's still a lot of holes. So, here's a snippet: self.win = GnomeApp('bidmeister_base', 'BidMeister') self.win.set_wmcl

Re: [pygtk] nasty bug

1999-09-29 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anybody else reproduce this bug? Any pointers or suggestions to > eliminate it? Any help would be greatly appreciated as this has largely > killed the project for the time being. I can verify that it does not happen on a LinuxPPC (PowerPC) machi

Re: [pygtk] pygtk - libglade ?

1999-09-09 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Kim Friesen wrote: > I am attempting to learn python and I was wondering if anyone is using > libglade/Glade to create their UI. I found glade to be THE least intuitive GUI builder I'd ever seen. Mind you, I've used bunches on several platforms and it, imho, sucks. > Is it

Re: [pygtk] Anaconda

1999-09-07 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, J.W. Bizzaro wrote: > Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > > > > I'm having to write something that will also run on Windows. I probably > > need some windows-using python people (who knit!) to make that part work > > OK. But how would you suggest doing

Re: [pygtk] Anaconda

1999-09-07 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > I wouldn't. ;-) Neither would I, however most of my prospective coders are indeed on Windows. > Seriously, I don't know enough about how Python finds things on > Windows to say; what happens / is supposed to happen if the "script" > the user

Re: [pygtk] Anaconda

1999-09-07 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
But I thought of this later. I'm having to write something that will also run on Windows. I probably need some windows-using python people (who knit!) to make that part work OK. But how would you suggest doing it on Windows? On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > &

Re: [pygtk] Anaconda

1999-09-07 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
> Deirdre Saoirse writes: > > /usr/local/lib/app-name wouldn't be a *bad* place. > > > > OTOH, I can make a case for /usr/local/bin/app-name too. At least the > > modules for starting a given app should be there. > > But not a good one. Modules ar

Re: [pygtk] Anaconda

1999-09-07 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, J.W. Bizzaro wrote: > Unless someone might want to import gui.py or any other part of Anaconda, the > source should go elsewhere. Where? Maybe /opt or /lib ? /opt isn't standardised across the unixes. /usr/local/lib/app-name wouldn't be a *bad* place. OTOH, I can make a c

Re: [pygtk] Getting font info.

1999-06-30 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
Or if they're using a different language, the word widths would be different for the text in their language. :) A good rule of thumb is to allow 30% extra width from a normal width font in English. This is speaking as a Mac programmer who's had to deal with multi-language support and is not based

[pygtk] Ten Minute Total Idiot's Guide

1999-01-02 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
I spent some time this evening writing the Ten Minute Total Idiot's Guide to Using Gnome/Gtk+ & Glade with Python And boy is my left pinky tired after all that capitalization! http://www.baypiggies.org/10mintig.html -- _Deirdre * http://www.linuxcabal.net * http://www.deirdre.net "Mar

Re: [pygtk] Glade and pygnome

1999-01-02 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, James Henstridge wrote: > Someone did some work on a python code generator for glade. I posted a > message about it to this list a while back. Here is the contents of that > message: There's also one I put up today that is linked from www.baypiggies.org. I haven't looked at

Re: [pygtk] Glade and pygnome

1999-01-02 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
Actually, I'm working on my Total Idiot's Guide. Please hold. It should be up shortly. :) -- _Deirdre * http://www.linuxcabal.net * http://www.deirdre.net "Mars has been a tough target" -- Peter G. Neumann, Risks Digest Moderator "That's because the Martians keep shooting things down." --

Re: [pygtk] Glade and pygnome

1999-01-02 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Hassan Aurag wrote: > I just wanted to know if there are any plans to make a python mode for > glade, that would create a source directory instead of the present > runtime thing. I much prefer the libglade approach. Since Jim wrote both, likely that's the way it'll go. > I