Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-18 Thread DL Neil
On 13/05/19 10:56 AM, boB Stepp wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 5:19 PM boB Stepp wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:05 PM David L Neil wrote: I'm using Gnome Terminal under Fedora (Linux). This allows multiple terminals in tabs (and thus Ctrl-Tab rapid-switching). However, it irritates me that

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-18 Thread David L Neil
On 18/05/19 4:15 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: On 16/05/2019 04:17, Alex Kleider wrote: Alt-Tab and the X cut 'n paste mechanism provides enough integration between windows. I tried this (Ubuntu 18.4) and Alt-Tab cycles between terminal and browser but I can't make it cycle from one termina

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-18 Thread David L Neil
On 13/05/19 6:13 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: On 12/05/2019 10:15, David L Neil wrote: Interestingly, I split these into two - my laziness for running/testing is 'Save, Alt-Tab, Up-arrow, Enter' which would be 'ruined' by using the cmdLN for anything else. In a bash shell I use Ctr-R (for

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-17 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 17:17, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > > Sorry I've been busy, my mother passed away early this morning > and we've been with her the last few days. Really sorry to hear that Alan. I hope you're holding up okay. (Obviously don't feel the need to answer python-tutor questions

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-17 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 16/05/2019 04:17, Alex Kleider wrote: >> Alt-Tab and the X cut 'n paste mechanism provides >> enough integration between windows. > > I tried this (Ubuntu 18.4) and Alt-Tab cycles between terminal and > browser but I can't make it cycle from one terminal to another. How do > you do that? So

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-16 Thread Alex Kleider
On 2019-05-16 03:35, Oscar Benjamin wrote: On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 04:30, Alex Kleider wrote: On 2019-05-12 00:59, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 12/05/2019 00:24, David L Neil wrote: > > Alt-Tab and the X cut 'n paste mechanism provides > enough integration between windows. I tried this (Ub

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-16 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 04:30, Alex Kleider wrote: > > On 2019-05-12 00:59, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > > On 12/05/2019 00:24, David L Neil wrote: > > > > Alt-Tab and the X cut 'n paste mechanism provides > > enough integration between windows. > > I tried this (Ubuntu 18.4) and Alt-Tab cycles be

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-15 Thread Alex Kleider
On 2019-05-12 00:59, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: On 12/05/2019 00:24, David L Neil wrote: "3 consoles": what is the purpose of each? (my first reaction stemmed from many editors including a built-in console) One for vim, One for the Python interpreter One for an OS shell used for running/tes

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-12 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 12/05/2019 23:19, boB Stepp wrote: > I may be mistaken, but I think that a terminal multiplexer like tmux > (https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki) is capable of session management. > I have no personal use of tmux, but have been intrigued enough about > others referring to it that eventually I wil

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12May2019 17:19, boB Stepp wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:05 PM David L Neil wrote: I'm using Gnome Terminal under Fedora (Linux). This allows multiple terminals in tabs (and thus Ctrl-Tab rapid-switching). However, it irritates me that whilst I can set "profiles" for particular purposes;

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-12 Thread boB Stepp
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 5:19 PM boB Stepp wrote: > > On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:05 PM David L Neil > wrote: > > > I'm using Gnome Terminal under Fedora (Linux). This allows multiple > > terminals in tabs (and thus Ctrl-Tab rapid-switching). However, it > > irritates me that whilst I can set "profi

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-12 Thread boB Stepp
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:05 PM David L Neil wrote: > I'm using Gnome Terminal under Fedora (Linux). This allows multiple > terminals in tabs (and thus Ctrl-Tab rapid-switching). However, it > irritates me that whilst I can set "profiles" for particular purposes; > there does not seem to be a way

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-12 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 12/05/2019 10:15, David L Neil wrote: > Interestingly, I split these into two - my laziness for running/testing > is 'Save, Alt-Tab, Up-arrow, Enter' which would be 'ruined' by using the > cmdLN for anything else. In a bash shell I use Ctr-R (for reverse search) and hit py to run the last py

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-12 Thread David L Neil
On 12/05/19 7:59 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: On 12/05/2019 00:24, David L Neil wrote: "3 consoles": what is the purpose of each? (my first reaction stemmed from many editors including a built-in console) One for vim, yes - that 'replaces' the window/app running an IDE/GUI-based editor.

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-12 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 12/05/2019 00:24, David L Neil wrote: > "3 consoles": what is the purpose of each? > (my first reaction stemmed from many editors including a built-in console) One for vim, One for the Python interpreter One for an OS shell used for running/testing the app plus any miscellaneous Unixy type thi

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-12 Thread David L Neil
On 12/05/19 10:57 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: On 11/05/2019 19:59, Cranky Frankie wrote: ... 1) For the IDE I'm most comfortable with Netbeans/Java, In that case use Netbeans. I use Netbeans myself when working with Java and have played with its Python implementation and its OK. Personall

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-11 Thread Jugurtha Hadjar
Hi, It seems you have a good overall idea on how you would tackle the project. First, have you talked to the people you are trying to build the application for, or are you the very people you're building this for? If you're building this for other people, try an figure out common scenarios on

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 12:05 PM Cranky Frankie wrote: > 2) For wxPython I'm finding a lot of the documentation is outdated. I'm a fan of wxPython myself, for a number of reasons - it suits the way I think, and the applications it generates look native to the platform they're running on, as opp

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-11 Thread DL Neil
Cranky, It is a little difficult to answer your question. First impression is that your experience gives you good ideas of how to solve the problem. Some of them may not suit the Python environment as well as (say) that of PHP/MSFT. So, a learning opportunity there too. Second impression is

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11May2019 14:59, Cranky Frankie wrote: I'm a long time IT professional trying to teach myself object-oriented programming. As such I want to build a traditional PC app using MVC (Model - View - Controller) architecture. Just want to make sure I'm heading about this in the best way so I'm look

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-11 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 11/05/2019 19:59, Cranky Frankie wrote: > I'm a long time IT professional trying to teach myself object-oriented > programming. As such I want to build a traditional PC app using MVC (Model > - View - Controller) architecture. One important thing to realoze about MVC is that there are very many

[Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-11 Thread Cranky Frankie
I'm a long time IT professional trying to teach myself object-oriented programming. As such I want to build a traditional PC app using MVC (Model - View - Controller) architecture. Just want to make sure I'm heading about this in the best way so I'm looking for some direction. For the Model or per