Re: Advice for a novice on making ambitious cross-platform GUI app

2006-09-27 Thread crystalattice
John Salerno wrote: > crystalattice wrote: > > > I'm working on making an > > RPG from scratch and I'm the only one doing it, but I'm learning a lot > > and just keep asking questions. > > Intriguing. Any tips on how you are going about learning the game > programming aspects of doing this? I took

Re: Advice for a novice on making ambitious cross-platform GUI app

2006-09-26 Thread John Salerno
crystalattice wrote: > I'm working on making an > RPG from scratch and I'm the only one doing it, but I'm learning a lot > and just keep asking questions. Intriguing. Any tips on how you are going about learning the game programming aspects of doing this? I took a look at PyGame, but it seemed

Re: Advice for a novice on making ambitious cross-platform GUI app

2006-09-26 Thread crystalattice
Chelonian wrote: > Can Python *alone* produce something like what I've described? Or > would I have to have some parts written in C? Or is Python really not > best-suited to these needs? As already mentioned, Python is capable of doing nearly any type of program. As long as you don't need low-l

Re: Advice for a novice on making ambitious cross-platform GUI app

2006-09-25 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
Chelonian wrote: > Project: ambitious GUI program for Win/Mac/Linux. Target user: > average person. App to look elegant, and be intuitive, responsive, > exectuable, have its own icon, etc. Needs to store user info in large > database for the long term, run in the background and pop up at > assi

Advice for a novice on making ambitious cross-platform GUI app

2006-09-25 Thread Chelonian
I'm considering trying to learn Python for a specific reason, and hoped the group might help me get a sense for whether it would be worth my time. The situation... Me: total beginner w/ a sense of programming basics and 1 week familiarizing myself with Python world. Use WinXP. Got Python 2.5.