[Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: Eric3 3.7 available for Mac OS X

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have assembled a package installer of the latest version (3.7) of Eric3, the Python IDE written in PyQt, for Mac OS X. To download, see http://www.wordtech-software.com/pyqt-mac.html This version will overwrite the version of Eric 3 that is include

[Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: Boa Constructor for OS X available

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boa Constructor is now available for Mac OS X. Boa is a cross-platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI Builder. It offers visual frame creation and manipulation, an object inspector, many views on the source like object browsers, inheritance hierarchies,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin Ollivier
Hi Chris, On Jun 16, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Chris Barker wrote: [snip] > > The reference manual is your best bet, though it's not indexed. > What I do is grep all the html files, and usually find what I want. > > One of the tricks is that as an OO library, most of the methods > available for a w

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How do you install TkInter for python 2.4 (on 10.3)

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Barker
Robert Kern wrote: > I have had problems with matplotlib/Tk/Python2.4 on Tiger with both the > Apple-installed frameworks and freshly downloaded ones. > it is > matplotlib-specific. I recommend wxPython 2.6.1 on Tiger for matplotlib. Thanks for the heads up! Personally, I don't use TK anyway,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How do you install TkInter for python 2.4 (on 10.3)

2005-06-16 Thread Robert Kern
Chris Barker wrote: > Thanks Bob. > > Bob Ippolito wrote: > >>On Jun 16, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > >>>Is it part of the standard install now? >> >>Yes, from : >>Unlike typical builds, this one has all the stock goodies: >> >>readline 5.0.005 (st

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How do you install TkInter for python 2.4 (on 10.3)

2005-06-16 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 16, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > Thanks Bob. > > Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> On Jun 16, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Chris Barker wrote: >> > > >>> Is it part of the standard install now? >>> >> >> >> Yes, from : >> Unlike typical builds, this one has all

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Robert Kern
Chris Barker wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >> I do interactive plotting with matplotlib all the time exactly as you >> describe. > > Robert, do you have any small demo programs that do this? I think it > would be a good thing to have out there. Perhaps the embedded_in_wx > examples already do

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Marcus Mendenhall
Louis: To take you on an altogether different tack for plotting scientific data sets in a nice interactive window, have you tried xmgrace and the graceplot package, which allows you to easily send data from a python program to xmgrace? Once the data have been sent, the formatting of the g

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How do you install TkInter for python 2.4 (on 10.3)

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Barker
Thanks Bob. Bob Ippolito wrote: > On Jun 16, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Chris Barker wrote: >>Is it part of the standard install now? > > > Yes, from : > Unlike typical builds, this one has all the stock goodies: > > readline 5.0.005 (static) > BerkeleyDB 4.3.27 (st

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How do you install TkInter for python 2.4 (on 10.3)

2005-06-16 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 16, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > Is there a canonical way to install Tkinter on OS-X with 2.4.1? > > I had installed it for use with Apple's 2.3, by installing the BI > version of TCL/TK, then using Packman to install Tkinter.This worked, > but I don't think there is are any Pac

[Pythonmac-SIG] How do you install TkInter for python 2.4 (on 10.3)

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Barker
Hi all, Is there a canonical way to install Tkinter on OS-X with 2.4.1? I had installed it for use with Apple's 2.3, by installing the BI version of TCL/TK, then using Packman to install Tkinter.This worked, but I don't think there is are any Packages for 2.4. However, now that I've installed

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Barker
Louis Pecora wrote: Chris Barker wrote: If you are interested in using FloatCanvas, you should send me a note, and I'll send you the latest version, and I can add you to a low-traffic mailing list for announcements and technical discussion. Thanks for the offer. I'll take you up on it.

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Louis Pecora
Robert Kern wrote: >Louis Pecora wrote: > > > >>Because matplotlib presents the plot at the end of the program. My >>programs are written to be interactive and continue running, i.e. >>calculate something or massage data, plot the result, close the plot >>window, do more stuff, check another

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Barker
Robert Kern wrote: > I do interactive plotting with matplotlib all the time exactly as you > describe. Robert, do you have any small demo programs that do this? I think it would be a good thing to have out there. Perhaps the embedded_in_wx examples already do this, but I haven't checked them ou

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Robert Kern
Louis Pecora wrote: > Because matplotlib presents the plot at the end of the program. My > programs are written to be interactive and continue running, i.e. > calculate something or massage data, plot the result, close the plot > window, do more stuff, check another plot, or other options not

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Louis Pecora
Chris Barker wrote: > Larry Meyn wrote: > >> I feel the same way. However, you might want to look at the >> floatcanvas module and FloatCanvasDemo.py that come with the >> wxPython distribution. I've found it a very useful starting point >> for data plotting scripts, especially if you are in

[Pythonmac-SIG] off-topic! BSD warning??

2005-06-16 Thread Charles Hartman
This has nothing (directly) to do with Python, but I can't find any answer elsewhere, and I'm sure people here know what's up. I'm on OS 10.4.1. When I try to run OnyX or Cocktail (the versions ready for 10.4), I get a fatal error phrased more or less like this: "The BSD Subsystem is not ins

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Newbie....(for now)

2005-06-16 Thread Roger Binns
> >Having not yet used wxPython, I'm not sure how "native" its apps look, > >but people seem to like its power. > > I very much like it on WinXP, and it works (and looks good) on OSX, > but some advanced widgets don't work. > see www.wxpython.org After downloading wxPython itself, there is also a

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Larry Meyn
I feel the same way. However, you might want to look at the floatcanvas module and FloatCanvasDemo.py that come with the wxPython distribution. I've found it a very useful starting point for data plotting scripts, especially if you are interested in cartographic transformations. It utilizes

[Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

2005-06-16 Thread Louis Pecora
I'd like to use wxPython to open some simple windows and draw/plot figures from data. But learning this apparently nice GUI has been haphazard. I've looked over documention that comes with the installation and it appears incomplete. Suggestions in the docs are to look to the examples and dem

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of "Emacs"?

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Hudson
Torsten Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It could be that you just have to change the preferred order of languages > for your system. No, see this page: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/CarbonEmacsPackage > I had a problem with Safari rendering some web pages in japanese > until

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Newbie....(for now)

2005-06-16 Thread Henning.Ramm
>Having not yet used wxPython, I'm not sure how "native" its apps look, >but people seem to like its power. I very much like it on WinXP, and it works (and looks good) on OSX, but some advanced widgets don't work. see www.wxpython.org Best regards, Henning Hraban Ramm Südkurier Medienhaus / Media

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of "Emacs"?

2005-06-16 Thread Torsten Sadowski
It could be that you just have to change the preferred order of languages for your system. I had a problem with Safari rendering some web pages in japanese until I added english to my system languages. Torsten On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Michael Hudson wrote: > Charles Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writ

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of "Emacs"?

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Hudson
Charles Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering about the ones in > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ > I see "Carbon Emacs", "Emacs on Aqua 8.0-rc3", "AquaMacs 0.9.1" . . . I think I use the Carbon Emacs from that selection. It works well, but needs tweaking on a non-Japanese