Unicode error in wx_gdi ?

2005-03-04 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, I still shaking out my last few bugs in my tile matching game: I am now down to one stumper for me: 1) when I initialize wxPython 2) from an exe that I have created with py2exe 3) when the executable is located on the desktop as opposed to somewhere on C or D directly 4) when My De

detecting the change in desktop resolution - how?

2005-02-21 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, I am trying to clean up some polish bugs with the Shanghai game I am working on and I am currently stuck on trying to get the right event for detecting when the user has changed the desktop resolution. I have tried trapping the following events: 1) SDL_ACTIVEEVENT 2) SDL_VIDEOEXPOSE

Detecting the change of screen resolution with SDL or PyGame

2005-02-21 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, I am trying to clean up some polish bugs with the Shanghai game I am working on and I am currently stuck on trying to get the right event for detecting when the user has changed the desktop resolution. I have tried trapping the following events: 1) SDL_ACTIVEEVENT 2) SDL_VIDEOEXPOSE 3

Re: goto, cls, wait commands

2005-02-13 Thread Erik Bethke
At least I thought this was funny and cool! -Erik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Trouble with the encoding of os.getcwd() in Korean Windows

2005-02-09 Thread Erik Bethke
Wow, even more information. When I set my default browser to IE, it launches fine... so it is something about FireFox being more picky than IE... Where would I hunt down this sort of problem? Sounds rare, should I contact Mozilla, or can you guys spot something silly I am doing? Thank you, -Eri

Re: Trouble with the encoding of os.getcwd() in Korean Windows

2005-02-09 Thread Erik Bethke
Ah and PS, again this is only for paths that are non-aschii or at least have Korean in them... The broswer bit launches successfully in other locations. -Erik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Trouble with the encoding of os.getcwd() in Korean Windows

2005-02-09 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, sorry for all the posts... I am *almost* there now... okay I have this code: import sys, os encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() htmlpath = os.getcwd() htmlpath = htmlpath.decode( encoding ) . write to the file . . file is written fine, and can be

Re: Trouble with the encoding of os.getcwd() in Korean Windows

2005-02-09 Thread Erik Bethke
Thank you Vincent, I will try this... I did get over my troubles with this new code snippet: encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() htmlpath = os.getcwd() htmlpath = htmlpath.decode( encoding ) That seems to be working well too. I can write to these files and I can open the

Re: Trouble with the encoding of os.getcwd() in Korean Windows

2005-02-09 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, Well as usual, after I post I keep on digging and I found the answer... http://cjkpython.i18n.org/ Has the encodings for Chinese, Korean and Japanese... and I took the hint that I found from the foundationstore and tried cp949 and wa-la! it works... Now, the question remains, how do

Trouble with the encoding of os.getcwd() in Korean Windows

2005-02-09 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, I have found much help in the google archives but I am still stuck... here is my code snippet: path = os.getcwd() path = path.decode('UTF8') Now the trouble is I am getting that darn UnicodeDecodeError, where it is tripping up on the Korean hangul for My Desktop. Now

Re: Effbot's SimpleXMLWriter fails when py2exe'd

2005-02-08 Thread Erik Bethke
Awesome! Great thank you both, fixed! -Erik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Effbot's SimpleXMLWriter fails when py2exe'd

2005-02-08 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, So I have been using Effbot's XML stuff a lot! And I have been using py2exe, pygame and wxPython all mixed together... I am getting this strange error log when writing XML files with his XML writer. It appears to be fouling up on the encoding, ONLY in the exe version. Runs fine and

Re: in wxPython, how to minimize the window in absence of minimize button?

2005-02-08 Thread Erik Bethke
Damn, I am dumb... self.Iconize( True ) Sorry. But a helpful tip is that the demo code *surrounding* the wxPython demo is VERY useful, I never looked at that before! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

in wxPython, how to minimize the window in absence of minimize button?

2005-02-08 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, I now have a wx.NO_BORDER frame that I have written dragging code for... I like my window this way as it looks sleeker and I am now installing some image buttons. Now I would like to create a new minimize button from an image, and then capture that mouse down and cause it to minimize t

Re: ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode?

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Bethke
Woo-hoo! Everything is working now! Thank you everyone! The TWO problems I had: 1) I needed to save my XML file in the first place with this code: f = codecs.open(paths[0], 'w', 'utf8') 2) I needed to download the UNICODE version of wxPython, duh. So why are there non-UNICODE versions of wxPyt

Re: ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode?

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Bethke
That was a great clue. I am an idiot and tapped on the wrong download link... now I can read and parse the xml file fine - as long as I create it in XML spy - if I create it by this method: d=wxFileDialog( self, message="Choose a file", defaultDir=os.getcwd(), defaultFile="", wildcard="*.xml", st

Re: ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode?

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Bethke
There is something wrong with the physical file... I d/l a trial version of XML Spy home edition and built an equivalent of the korean test file, and tried it and it got past the element tree error and now I am stuck with the wxEditCtrl error. To build the xml file in the first place I had code th

Re: ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode?

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello Fredrik, 1) The exact error is in line 1160 of self._parser.Parse(data, 0 ): xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 3, column 16 2) You are right in that the print of the file read works just fine. 3) You are also right in that the digitally encoded unicode als

ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode?

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, I am getting an error of not well-formed at the beginning of the Korean text in the second example. I am doing something wrong with how I am encoding my Korean? Do I need more of a wrapper about it than simple quotes? Is there some sort of XML syntax for indicating a Unicode string,

Re: wxPython and PyGame - do they play well together?

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Bethke
After a touch more of exploration... actually from the wxPython demo's startup tips lead me over to the wxPython Wiki Here I found this gem: http://wiki.wxpython.org./index.cgi/IntegratingPyGame Awesome. There is in fact some very tricky timing of the import statement for pygame -Erik --

Re: wxPython and PyGame - do they play well together?

2005-01-18 Thread Erik Bethke
Thank you, My apologies to all for insufficient googling -Erik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

wxPython and PyGame - do they play well together?

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello All, I am having a great time with python and pygame, and last night I took a long look at the wxPython demo. I think that rocks as well. So now, my question is do wxPython and PyGame work together? How is the windows event loop managed? How is the display window managed? Is it possible

Re: pygame + py2exe = bad exe. why?

2005-01-16 Thread Erik Bethke
n the normal py2exe process. See the end of the setup script. #!/usr/bin/env python from distutils.core import setup import py2exe, pygame import glob, shutil setup(windows=["mahjong.py"], name='GoPets Mahjong', version='0.3.1', description='Mahjong for Go

Re: Python! Is! Truly! Amazing!

2005-01-02 Thread Erik Bethke
somehow lost my j's: www.erikbethke.com/Python/screenshot02.jpg www.erikbethke.com/Python/screenshot03.jpg www.erikbethke.com/Python/screenshot04.jpg www.erikbethke.com/Python/screenshot05.jpg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python! Is! Truly! Amazing!

2005-01-02 Thread Erik Bethke
Oh yeah, and farmer, no I didn't yet get back to making an exe by fixing the problem with pygame2exe i just got disctracted getting other things done so fast! -Erik www.gopetslive.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python! Is! Truly! Amazing!

2005-01-02 Thread Erik Bethke
Hello Everyone, I have to say: Python! Is! Truly! Amazing! So I started with python about a month ago and put in 24 hours across three weekends. My first project was to recreate a simple maze-let thingie that I remember as my first program way back on the Vic-20. That was a quick snap and a pl

Re: pygame + py2exe = bad exe. why?

2004-12-31 Thread Erik Bethke
M.E.Farmer wrote: > Hello Erik, > Have you ever seen pygame2exe.py? > It is a py2exe script for pygame. Hello M.E. Farmer, Thank you for your response. I looked into it and I discovered this speedbump: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pygame-users/2244073 "pygame-users Re: [pygame

pygame + py2exe = bad exe. why?

2004-12-28 Thread Erik Bethke
'other files' - which are??? I have also included the full output of py2exe below: I would really, really appreciate someone setting me on the right track to whatever is the current method for producing windows exe's for python 2.3.4 and pygame!! Please. This has to be a stra