Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread Ville Vainio
Torsten Bronger wrote: > Has Wax exceeded the critical mass so that one can be quite certain > that it will still be maintained, say, next year? (Sincere question > since I don't know.) I was a bit worried about this myself, but after browsing the source I have to say I'm not terribly so anymor

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! "Fuzzyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> Ok, after brief eyeballing & experimenting, it appears that Wax >> is just what I was looking for. The code is simple, concise and >> trivially understandable, the level of

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread Fuzzyman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Fuzzyman wrote: > > > > > The code is relatively simple - so it would be easy to maintain the > > > parts you use if that was necessary. Certainly easier than duplicating > > > it yourself from scratch. :-) > > > > Sounds convincing, I'll giv

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fuzzyman wrote: > > > The code is relatively simple - so it would be easy to maintain the > > parts you use if that was necessary. Certainly easier than duplicating > > it yourself from scratch. :-) > > Sounds convincing, I'll give it a shot after all. Ok, after brief ey

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Decker
On 16 Feb 2006 14:07:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snoe wrote: > > > Take a look at dabo, II think they're doing exactly what you're > > describing. > > http://blog.dabodev.com/ > > Dabo appear to be doing way more than what I want, with database access > etc. That was m

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fuzzyman wrote: > The code is relatively simple - so it would be easy to maintain the > parts you use if that was necessary. Certainly easier than duplicating > it yourself from scratch. :-) Sounds convincing, I'll give it a shot after all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread Fuzzyman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > The web content is a bit sparse; fortunately the code has seen more > > love than the web pages. Wax was the focus of a couple of Google > > "Summer of Code" projects, and new life seems to have been gained as a > > result. > > I'm glad to hear tha

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snoe wrote: > Take a look at dabo, II think they're doing exactly what you're > describing. > http://blog.dabodev.com/ Dabo appear to be doing way more than what I want, with database access etc. My ideal module, when implemented, would be extremely small as far as the size of code goes. I'm usi

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ben Finney wrote: > The web content is a bit sparse; fortunately the code has seen more > love than the web pages. Wax was the focus of a couple of Google > "Summer of Code" projects, and new life seems to have been gained as a > result. I'm glad to hear that, however, I just took a look at the m

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread Pietro Campesato
As you just said, wxPython is "...(a simple wrapper for a C++ toolkit)": it is oriented toward the C++ style/mindset. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I rarely do GUIs, and reminded myself today why that is the case (simply, it's not fun). I implemented a simple TreeCtrl, and had to implement my own 'children' method, of all things! Here it is: def children(self,node): c = [] nc,cookie = self.GetFirstChild(node) whi

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread snoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I rarely do GUIs, and reminded myself today why that is the case > (simply, it's not fun). > > I implemented a simple TreeCtrl, and had to implement my own 'children' > method, of all things! > > Here it is: > > def children(self,node): > c = [] > nc,

Re: Evil, evil wxPython (and a glimmer of hope)

2006-02-17 Thread Ben Finney
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I rarely do GUIs, and reminded myself today why that is the case > (simply, it's not fun). Programming C++ in Python isn't much fun, true. > However, it should be pretty easy to write small wrapper over the > wxPython api. > [...] > wxPython is gr