Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread David Roberts
/home/fetchinson/pyzui/pyzui/tilestore.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead   import sha Yeah, I'd noticed that. It's fixed in the repository now. On Dec 16, 10:55 pm, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote: PyZUI 0.1 has been

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread David Roberts
Personally I see a merging of normal app windows and a zui: some kind of new window manager. Have you seen Eagle Mode[1]? [1] http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/ On Dec 17, 5:14 pm, Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:03:19 David Roberts wrote: It involves

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread Donn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 10:54:59 David Roberts wrote: Have you seen Eagle Mode[1]? Yes. It's a strange beast. Good start I think; but addicted to zooming, to the detriment of the managing aspects I think. Still, here I sit writing no code and pontificating! \d -- \/\/ave:

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
/home/fetchinson/pyzui/pyzui/tilestore.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha Yeah, I'd noticed that. It's fixed in the repository now. Great, thanks, pulled it and all looks good. Cheers, Daniel PyZUI 0.1 has been released:

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread Terry Reedy
On 12/17/2009 2:14 AM, Donn wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:03:19 David Roberts wrote: It involves scaling an image to various resolutions, and partitioning them into fixed-size tiles. It's roughly the same technique used by Google Maps/Earth. Thanks. That gives me something to go on.

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-17 Thread Donn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:46:41 Terry Reedy wrote: His idea was for a document rather than app centric plain. These days I find the notion of monolithic apps to be a pita. The concept of many small black boxes (but open source) that each do a single job and pipe in/out is so much more

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-16 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
PyZUI 0.1 has been released: http://da.vidr.cc/projects/pyzui/ Cool, thanks very much! I'm using python 2.6 these days and noticed that you use the sha module which makes py2.6 spit out a deprecation warning: /home/fetchinson/pyzui/pyzui/tilestore.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-16 Thread r0g
David Roberts wrote: PyZUI 0.1 has been released: http://da.vidr.cc/projects/pyzui/ Cool, thanks :) Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-16 Thread Donn
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 09:42:14 David Roberts wrote: PyZUI 0.1 has been released: Magic! Grabbed a tarball yesterday. \d -- \/\/ave: donn.in...@googlewave.com home: http://otherwise.relics.co.za/ 2D vector animation : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/things/ Font manager :

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-16 Thread Donn
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:03:19 David Roberts wrote: It involves scaling an image to various resolutions, and partitioning them into fixed-size tiles. It's roughly the same technique used by Google Maps/Earth. Thanks. That gives me something to go on. Wikipedia didn't like my search

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread Donn
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 04:29:39 David Roberts wrote: Yes, the toolkit used is PyQt. \me makes note to start learning PyQt asap. and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency \me ... time to hit Wikipedia :) (I haven't used any Qt/KDE voodoo in this regard). Imho, your code should *become*

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread Martijn Arts
You could do some really awesome stuff with that! I love the webpage example where you zoom in on the exclamation mark and there's a new page. Just imagine the possibilities! On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 15 December 2009 04:29:39 David Roberts

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread Donn
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 11:12:21 Martijn Arts wrote: You could do some really awesome stuff with that! I love the webpage example where you zoom in on the exclamation mark and there's a new page. It is very cool, but I would inject a note of caution here: I'd a hate a zui to become a

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread alex23
Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote: I find the notion of minute hot areas to be a little obscure -- Quick! Zoom into the last full-stop, it's a whole word in there! This aspect reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode Back to Reality, in which Rimmer is criticised for not finding information contained

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread David Roberts
and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency \me ... time to hit Wikipedia :) It involves scaling an image to various resolutions, and partitioning them into fixed-size tiles. It's roughly the same technique used by Google Maps/Earth. It is very cool, but I would inject a note of caution

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-15 Thread David Roberts
PyZUI 0.1 has been released: http://da.vidr.cc/projects/pyzui/ On Dec 15, 12:29 pm, David Roberts d...@vidr.cc wrote: Hi, Yes, the toolkit used is PyQt. The ZUI is implemented using a simple QPainter, and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency (I haven't used any Qt/KDE voodoo in this

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread Donn
On Monday 14 December 2009 00:10:52 David Boddie wrote: Doesn't the author give his e-mail address at the end of the video? (Maybe I'm thinking of a different video.) Yes, in a quick and garbled way :) I have yet to try to contact the author or the youtube poster -- been too busy. I was

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread geremy condra
might be related to this: http://code.google.com/p/rchi-zui/ geremy condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread Rami Chowdhury
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:02, Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009 00:10:52 David Boddie wrote: Doesn't the author give his e-mail address at the end of the video? (Maybe I'm thinking of a different video.) Yes, in a quick and garbled way :) I have yet to try to

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 14 December 2009 20:02, Donn wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009 00:10:52 David Boddie wrote: Doesn't the author give his e-mail address at the end of the video? (Maybe I'm thinking of a different video.) Yes, in a quick and garbled way :) I have yet to try to contact the author or

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread Donn
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 01:43:52 David Boddie wrote: I managed to catch his address and sent him a message saying that people were discussing PyZUI in this thread. Oooh. Sits,fidgets and waits. I want my socks back! (OP) :D \d -- \/\/ave: donn.in...@googlewave.com home:

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread David Roberts
Hi, Yes, the toolkit used is PyQt. The ZUI is implemented using a simple QPainter, and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency (I haven't used any Qt/KDE voodoo in this regard). I'm using Gnome at the moment, but it should work just as well on KDE. Web pages are rendered using QtWebKit, and PDF

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-13 Thread David Boddie
On Friday 11 December 2009 05:41, Donn wrote: I happened upon this youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nWm984wdY It fairly blew my socks off. In it a fellow by the name of David Roberts demos a zui written in Python. Aside from the zooming (which is impressive enough) it show

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi, I happened upon this youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nWm984wdY It fairly blew my socks off. In it a fellow by the name of David Roberts demos a zui written in Python. Aside from the zooming (which is impressive enough) it show embedding of images, pdf files, web pages and

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-11 Thread Donn
On Friday 11 December 2009 12:38:46 Daniel Fetchinson wrote: Youtube has a link 'Send message' on the profile of users, maybe sending a message to the person who uploaded the video will give you a useful response. I'm a Tube-tard so that never crossed my mind. Will give it a go. \d --

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-11 Thread Stef Mientki
Donn wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 12:38:46 Daniel Fetchinson wrote: Youtube has a link 'Send message' on the profile of users, maybe sending a message to the person who uploaded the video will give you a useful response. I'm a Tube-tard so that never crossed my mind. Will give it

pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-10 Thread Donn
Hi, I happened upon this youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nWm984wdY It fairly blew my socks off. In it a fellow by the name of David Roberts demos a zui written in Python. Aside from the zooming (which is impressive enough) it show embedding of images, pdf files, web pages and