Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] A simple app: Develop on Leopard, use on Tiger

2008-06-20 Thread John Velman
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:15:02PM -0700, John Velman wrote: > I'm a bit out of my depth here, new to Mac, comfortable with Python, > comfortable with SQL, but lots left to learn. > > Problem: > > My daughter is starting a small business renting a certain kind of prop to [snip] Many thanks to al

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] A simple app: Develop on Leopard, use on Tiger

2008-06-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 19, 2008, at 7:15 PM, John Velman wrote: My current thinking is (but I've a lot to learn) something like this: Python as the application platform. SQLite as an embedded database. Would be nice to use QT for user interface. Outputs needed in PDF format, and possible PDF with fillabl

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] A simple app: Develop on Leopard, use on Tiger

2008-06-20 Thread DeanG
Would Dabo work well here? http://dabodev.com/ On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:15 PM, John Velman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a bit out of my depth here, new to Mac, comfortable with Python, > comfortable with SQL, but lots left to learn. > > Problem: > > My daughter is starting a small business r

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] A simple app: Develop on Leopard, use on Tiger

2008-06-20 Thread Christopher Barker
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: If you don't need to create an proper application, you can just install all the needed modules on your daughters Mac, then you can develop platform independent. And if you do, you can use py2app with the python.org build of python2.5, and you'll get a self-contained

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] converting Mac 'path' to file path in appscript?

2008-06-20 Thread Bill Janssen
Cool. Thanks, Ned and Daniel. Bill ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] A simple app: Develop on Leopard, use on Tiger

2008-06-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-06-20 um 01:15 schrieb John Velman: Python as the application platform. SQLite as an embedded database. Would be nice to use QT for user interface. Outputs needed in PDF format, and possible PDF with fillable forms. I can probably get my daughter to upgrade to Leopard, but if an ap

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] converting Mac 'path' to file path in appscript?

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Lord
On Jun 19, 2008, at 21:33 PM, Ned Deily wrote: One way: mactypes.File.makewithhfspath(u'wolfe:downloads').path mactypes is a very useful module, it is how I get the selection in the Finder via appscript whether usi