RE: wxPython Cookbook

2016-08-26 Thread Gonzales, Dean
Very cool! Thanks for doing this. I can't wait to dig into your cookbook. Regards, Dean Gonzales -Original Message- From: Python-announce-list [mailto:python-announce-list-bounces+dean.gonzales=amd@python.org] On Behalf Of Mike Driscoll Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 12:57 PM To:

Re: wxpython strange behaviour

2016-01-16 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/15/2016 05:58 PM, Shiva Upreti wrote: > > What kind of further details do you want? Please tell me and i will try my > best to provide them. As always, post a small but complete example test program (no more than 20 lines of code) that has the problem. Paste it in such a way that one can

Re: wxpython strange behaviour

2016-01-15 Thread Shiva Upreti
On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 4:39:12 AM UTC+5:30, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > On 15.01.2016 18:05, Shiva Upreti wrote: > > Please help me solve these issues. > Please decide first on which list or forum you want your questions to be > answered. Once people find out that you are asking the

Re: wxpython strange behaviour

2016-01-15 Thread Shiva Upreti
On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 2:22:24 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 15/01/2016 17:05, Shiva Upreti wrote: > > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4baa67aafd04555eb4e6 > > > > I wrote the above code to display a toasterbox, and I didnt want it to > > display any frames on the screen, just

Re: wxpython strange behaviour

2016-01-15 Thread Shiva Upreti
On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 10:55:59 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Shiva Upreti > wrote: > > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4baa67aafd04555eb4e6 > > > > I wrote the above code to display a toasterbox, and I didnt want it to > > display any frames on the screen

Re: wxpython strange behaviour

2016-01-15 Thread Shiva Upreti
On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 10:55:59 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Shiva Upreti > wrote: > > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4baa67aafd04555eb4e6 > > > > I wrote the above code to display a toasterbox, and I didnt want it to > > display any frames on the screen

Re: wxpython strange behaviour

2016-01-15 Thread Shiva Upreti
On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 10:35:57 PM UTC+5:30, Shiva Upreti wrote: > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4baa67aafd04555eb4e6 > > I wrote the above code to display a toasterbox, and I didnt want it to > display any frames on the screen, just a toasterbox. The problem with this > code is that

Re: wxpython strange behaviour

2016-01-15 Thread Dietmar Schwertberger
On 15.01.2016 18:05, Shiva Upreti wrote: Please help me solve these issues. Please decide first on which list or forum you want your questions to be answered. Once people find out that you are asking the same questions all over, the support will soon end. Regards, Dietmar -- https://mail.pyt

Re: wxpython strange behaviour

2016-01-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 15/01/2016 17:05, Shiva Upreti wrote: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4baa67aafd04555eb4e6 I wrote the above code to display a toasterbox, and I didnt want it to display any frames on the screen, just a toasterbox. The problem with this code is that it runs fine when I run it the first ti

Re: wxpython strange behaviour

2016-01-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Shiva Upreti wrote: > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4baa67aafd04555eb4e6 > > I wrote the above code to display a toasterbox, and I didnt want it to > display any frames on the screen, just a toasterbox. The problem with this > code is that it runs fine when

Re: wxPython Boxsizers

2014-11-06 Thread Joy Deep
I am using Python 2.7.6 Here is the code I am trying: import wx class MyFrame(wx.Frame): def __init__(self, *args, **kid's): wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwds) self.button_1 = wx.Button(self, wx.ID_ANY, "button_1") self.button_2 = wx.Button(self, wx.ID_ANY, "button

Re: wxPython Boxsizers

2014-11-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/11/2014 10:13, Jaydip Chakrabarty wrote: Hello, I am new to Python. I am learning boxsizer. I want to put two buttons on my panel. One at top right corner and one at bottom right corner. How do I achieve this? Thanks Probably best asked here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wxp

Re: wxPython Boxsizers

2014-11-06 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Jaydip Chakrabarty wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to Python. I am learning boxsizer. I want to put two buttons on > my panel. One at top right corner and one at bottom right corner. How do > I achieve this? > > Thanks First, what version of python. What is boxsizer?

Re: wxpython using variable with wx.statictext ignores \n

2012-06-01 Thread MRAB
On 01/06/2012 07:24, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi, I have some wxPython code created with wxGlade that I am customizing. I have a label created under the def __init__() section of the Frame Class. It states... self.Question = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "My question...") if I insert a new li

Re: WxPython and TK

2011-08-09 Thread gb
azrael writes: > OK, now. Isn't it maybe time to throw out TK once and for all? no, because Tk has a clear advantage over many other UI tolkits Tk _was designed_ and it was designed by very competent people [1] good luck with smurfs' hunting [2], ciao

Re: WxPython and TK

2011-08-08 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Aug 7, 2011, at 8:26 PM, azrael wrote: > Today I found a quote from Guido. > > wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a > number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI > toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. > -- Guido van R

Re: WxPython and TK

2011-08-08 Thread python
Azrael, > Isn't it maybe time to throw out TK once and for all? Python is missing one > of the most important aspects of todays IT industry. GUI development native > library (I mean a serious one). Check out enhancements to Tk like Ttk included in Python 2.7 and 3.1 and above. http://www.tkdocs

Re: WxPython and TK

2011-08-08 Thread ln4
azrael wrote: > Today I found a quote from Guido. > > wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a > number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python > GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. -- Guido van Rossum > > OK, now. Isn't it mayb

Re: WxPython and TK

2011-08-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:26 am azrael wrote: > Today I found a quote from Guido. > > wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a > number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python > GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. -- Guido van Rossum

Re: WxPython and TK

2011-08-07 Thread Gregory Ewing
azrael wrote: If I would have gotten a dollar for every time I talked to someone in a company about why they dont use python for their products and I was served the answer "Well it kind of sucks in GUI development", I would be a millionaire. Even assuming that Python + wxPython sucks less than

Re: WxPython and TK

2011-08-07 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:26 PM, azrael wrote: > Today I found a quote from Guido. > > wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a > number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI > toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. > -- Guido van

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-03-02 Thread Gregory Ewing
Corey Richardson wrote: What are those gaps? That depends on what you consider to be essential. Things I would like to add include: * Combo box * Group box * Tab panel (aka "notebook") * Table view * Tree view * Rich text editor -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-03-02 Thread Corey Richardson
On 03/02/2011 07:40 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Octavian Rasnita wrote: > >> How complete is this GUI lib compared with others that can be used in >> Python apps? > > It has most of the basic things you would want. There are one > or two gaps, and I'm working on filling them. What are those gaps

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-03-02 Thread Gregory Ewing
Octavian Rasnita wrote: How complete is this GUI lib compared with others that can be used in Python apps? It has most of the basic things you would want. There are one or two gaps, and I'm working on filling them. "Get the library and its documentation included in the core Python distributi

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-03-02 Thread Gregory Ewing
Terry Reedy wrote: PyGui seems to be purely a gui package, but it appear to be aimed only at 2.x with no interest in 3.x. I'm working on 3.x conversion right now and should have something ready soon. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-03-01 Thread Gregory Ewing
rantingrick wrote: All we have to do is create an abstraction API that calls wxPython until we can create OUR OWN wxPython from WxWidgets. There seems to be at least one other project around like that: http://dabodev.com/ -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxPython SQLite and Reportlab demo

2011-02-25 Thread Beppe
On 25 Feb, 08:33, Tim Roberts wrote: > Beppe wrote: > > >I would recommend this my little work on sourceforge. > > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyggybank/ > > >you can download an exe (pyggy_w32.7z)  make with py2exe > >and the source  (pyggy_source.7z) > >the project is named Pyggy Bank. > >

Re: wxPython SQLite and Reportlab demo

2011-02-24 Thread Tim Roberts
Beppe wrote: > >I would recommend this my little work on sourceforge. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyggybank/ > >you can download an exe (pyggy_w32.7z) make with py2exe >and the source (pyggy_source.7z) >the project is named Pyggy Bank. Nowhere, in either this announcement or your source

Re: wxPython in the context of Eclipse

2011-02-20 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
On 20/02/2011 10:00 PM, python-list-requ...@python.org wrote: Subject: wxPython in the context of Eclipse From: Fred Marshall Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:22:44 -0800 To: python-list@python.org I asked earlier: How do I use wxPython or wxGlade in the context of Eclipse? A link to a howto would

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-31 Thread sturlamolden
On 23 Jan, 01:07, rantingrick wrote: > It is time to prove once and for all how dated and worthless Tkinter > is compared to wxPython. Yes, WxPython is not as advanced as i would > like it to be for a 21st century GUI library. So use PyQt instead. > However compared to > Tkinter, Wx is light ye

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-30 Thread alex23
rantingrick wrote: > To be honest, i would sacrifice all the functionality of > wxWidgets if we could get pyGUI into the stdlib. Why? Well because > pyGUI would be under OUR complete control. "You" would need to contribute something other than bullshit and vitriol in order to be able to use the w

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-30 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 28, 9:15 am, "Littlefield, Tyler" wrote: > > If you want to rant and scream about accessibility, yell at the > people charging an arm and a leg to make things accessible. > You make a good point as we could always use more opensource, free, and reasonably priced software. However unless th

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-30 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>Are you a representative voice for all the screen reader users? (Even though >most of them use JAWS that you don't seem to like) Newsflash: I didn't say I didn't like Jaws, and I'm using Jaws -right now-. I don't like jaws and see a lot of future for NVDA as it is both free and open source. I

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread rusi
On Jan 27, 10:47 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > So you're saying that you don't see any value in easing communication, > nor presumably in communication itself? A Goedel-ian meta-recursion problem here Grant: You want to communicate the need for communication to one who does not see the need/value o

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Christian Tismer
On 1/25/11 12:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:24:24 -0800, Robin Dunn wrote: On Jan 24, 12:03 pm, rantingrick wrote: On Jan 24, 1:57 pm, Robin Dunn wrote: BTW, on behalf of the wxPython community I'd like to apologize for the havoc caused by the flaming troll escaping f

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread rantingrick
Rick: > Man look at the state of Tkinter. Look at the bugs and mediocre code i > exposed. Are you going to set there with a strait face and tell me > many people are using Tkinter. Come on Kevin, be realistic! Tyler: > You also uncovered bugs in WX (remember those segfaults, RR)? Yes i do, and i

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 1/28/11 12:35 PM, rantingrick wrote: > The fact remains. The word "fact" does not mean what you think it means. -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>Man look at the state of Tkinter. Look at the bugs and mediocre code i >exposed. Are you going to set there with a strait face and tell me >many people are using Tkinter. Come on Kevin, be realistic! You also uncovered bugs in WX (remember those segfaults, RR)? On 1/28/2011 1:35 PM, rantingrick w

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 28, 2:37 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/28/2011 3:33 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > "Get the library and its documentation included in the core Python > > distribution, so that truly cross-platform GUI applications may be written > > that will run on any Python installation, anywhere." > >

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 28, 10:16 am, Kevin Walzer wrote: > On 1/28/11 9:18 AM, rantingrick wrote: > > > Everyone on this list knows that Kevin and myself are the *only* > > people who know how to wield Tkinter past some simple utility GUI's. > > I strongly disagree with this statement. Whether you agree or disag

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/28/2011 3:33 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: "Terry Reedy" For example: pygui pretty much uses native widgets on Windows and OX and gtk (I believe) on *nix. How is the accessibility of those widget sets *as accessed through pygui*? Is it different from the 'native' accessibility of each

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 28, 9:52 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > [plonk] Why is it necessarily for you guys to advertise when you plonk. Just plonk and shut up about it. Nobody cares what you do with your own incoming email. Really, are you that self centered as to think we actually care? [zing] -- http://mail.pyt

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread MRAB
On 28/01/2011 08:34, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: "Littlefield, Tyler" what >JAWS Tyler, did I used bad words in my posts as you do now? I didn't, but the other list members told me that my atitude is not good, that I am not civilized, because I have a different opinion than them. I am sure

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 1/28/11 6:18 AM, rantingrick wrote: > On Jan 27, 12:13 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote: > >> Seriously. Octavian's attitude in this thread makes me want to go use >> Tkinter just to spite him. And I'm net-buds with Tyler, and I'm working >> on a project that I thought accessibility for the blind was

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Bryan
On Jan 28, 10:16 am, Kevin Walzer wrote: > On 1/28/11 9:18 AM, rantingrick wrote: > > > Everyone on this list knows that Kevin and myself are the *only* > > people who know how to wield Tkinter past some simple utility GUI's. > > I strongly disagree with this statement. > (BTW, Kevin, Congrats on

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/28/11 9:18 AM, rantingrick wrote: Everyone on this list knows that Kevin and myself are the *only* people who know how to wield Tkinter past some simple utility GUI's. I strongly disagree with this statement. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mai

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-28, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > From: "Grant Edwards" >> A very important way to help would be to test accessibility features >> and post accurate, detailed, bug-reports. > I am willing to do that. I have tested that program made with > WxPython and I have posted here what I found, The

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-28, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > From: "Stephen Hansen" >> Seriously. Octavian's attitude in this thread makes me want to go use >> Tkinter just to spite him. > > Oh yes? And this would probably mean that your atitude is a very good > and normal one, right? Good? No. Normal? Yes. I'm b

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Bryan
On Jan 28, 8:18 am, rantingrick wrote: > On Jan 27, 12:13 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote: > > > Seriously. Octavian's attitude in this thread makes me want to go use > > Tkinter just to spite him. And I'm net-buds with Tyler, and I'm working > > on a project that I thought accessibility for the blind w

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-28, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > How can we talk about etiquette when exactly this etiquette is the one that > needs to be changed? Huh? > As you say, the etiquette is in favor of the preferences of the majority, > but how should react someone, what he/she should say in order to make th

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 3:49 pm, "Littlefield, Tyler" wrote: >  >Yes but his silence speaks louder than words. He is saying " While i >  >won't defend Tkinter publicly, i won't promote any others as well". > That's the best translation I've ever heard: taking silence and > diverting it into your own meaning fo

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 12:13 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote: > Seriously. Octavian's attitude in this thread makes me want to go use > Tkinter just to spite him. And I'm net-buds with Tyler, and I'm working > on a project that I thought accessibility for the blind was very > important for. But no more! Well Steph

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 28, 2:33 am, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > From: "Terry Reedy" > > > For example: pygui pretty much uses native widgets on Windows and OX and > > gtk (I believe) on *nix. How is the accessibility of those widget sets *as > > accessed through pygui*? Is it different from the 'native' accessib

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" >Yes but his silence speaks louder than words. He is saying " While i >won't defend Tkinter publicly, i won't promote any others as well". That's the best translation I've ever heard: taking silence and diverting it into your own meaning for what you want it to mean.

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" >* Disclaimer: You are stupid if you think this is true. But seriously, >Octavian makes it REALLY hard to continue caring about something that I >actually cared about before and thought was important. When I told about what the community of the blind from my country

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Stephen Hansen" Seriously. Octavian's attitude in this thread makes me want to go use Tkinter just to spite him. Oh yes? And this would probably mean that your atitude is a very good and normal one, right? Octavian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "rusi" Its quite clear to everyone here that -- Octavian has no interest in a 21st century snazzy-looking toolkit Oh well I am interested, but with the condition that toolkit to be accessible, however Tkinter is not. Is it too much to expect from a "21st century snazzy-looking toolkit" to

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>Yes but his silence speaks louder than words. He is saying " While i >won't defend Tkinter publicly, i won't promote any others as well". That's the best translation I've ever heard: taking silence and diverting it into your own meaning for what you want it to mean. -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>Exactly what I said. They are doing the same mistake as I did 20 years ago. and are still making now... Lack of English and grammar isn't the problem... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "alex23" "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: Ok, in this case I understand why WxPython can't be included in stdlib. I think there was a communication problem because the oldest list members start with the idea that all the list members know who is who and they may be thinking that I don't want to

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Grant Edwards" I think there are a lot of people who think that including a GUI in the standard library was a mistake and the best solution would be to get rid of Tkinter and replace it with nothing. If I were Guido and thought that, I'd probably keep mum about it as well. :) [I'm not c

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Terry Reedy" wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. -- Guido van Rossum (from http://www.wxpython.org/quotes.php) Of course, that is

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Corey Richardson" wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. -- Guido van Rossum Oh, how can Guido say this about that bad WxPython that

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" >Because healthy Linux users ARE NOT equal to handicapped people! O? I bet I could run circles around RR in the shell, any day. Why are you trying to promote accessibility for a group of people you consider not equal to a group of "healthy" people? What do you mean

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" what >JAWS Tyler, did I used bad words in my posts as you do now? I didn't, but the other list members told me that my atitude is not good, that I am not civilized, because I have a different opinion than them. I am sure *nobody* will tell you that thing even though

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Grant Edwards" A very important way to help would be to test accessibility features and post accurate, detailed, bug-reports. I am willing to do that. I have tested that program made with WxPython and I have posted here what I found, hoping that there will appear a Tkinter-based app t

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Giampaolo Rodolà" ... py2exe offers the following installation kits, depending on the Python version. If you know, please tell me why there are different packages for different versions of Python? py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.5.exe py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.4.exe py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.3.exe py2e

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Terry Reedy" For example: pygui pretty much uses native widgets on Windows and OX and gtk (I believe) on *nix. How is the accessibility of those widget sets *as accessed through pygui*? Is it different from the 'native' accessibility of each of those set? Thank you for telling about th

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Grant Edwards" You said that you don't care about convincing anybody either that accessibility is import or about convincing anybody to do anything about it. To me that means you don't care about accessiblity. And you are wrong. If you don't try to convince someone that Python is a go

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Grant Edwards" So you're saying that you don't see any value in easing communication, nor presumably in communication itself? No, I don't want to say that, but I want to say that if it is obviously that the others don't care about the main issue discussed, then the communication just fo

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread alex23
rantingrick wrote: > different choices OUTSIDE the stdlib. INSIDE the stdlib we have no > choice. Just wanted to make that clear. Because packaging a dependency with your application is an arcane art lost to modern times? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread alex23
"Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > Ok, in this case I understand why WxPython can't be included in stdlib. > I think there was a communication problem because the oldest list members > start with the idea that all the list members know who is who and they may > be thinking that I don't want to accept the

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/27/2011 09:53 PM, alex23 wrote: > rantingrick wrote: >> You'll need to read that snippet in context to understand what i was >> talking about. Again, see my "tip of the day" in my last post to you. > > Pass. I'd have to see value in what you say inside of the endless > masturbatory self-agg

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread alex23
rantingrick wrote: > You'll need to read that snippet in context to understand what i was > talking about. Again, see my "tip of the day" in my last post to you. Pass. I'd have to see value in what you say inside of the endless masturbatory self-aggrandizement that you pass off as "visionary" pos

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Nicholas Devenish
On 28/01/2011 00:54, rantingrick AKA "Brian" wrote: Yes the minor details have been evolving over the course of this and another thread. We have been floating new ideas all along the way in an effort to get the best result. In the very beginning because we all know that wxPython IS HUGE i offered

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 5:50 pm, Kevin Walzer wrote: > On 1/27/11 1:11 PM, rantingrick wrote: [...] Hello again Kevin and nice to have you back! Yes the minor details have been evolving over the course of this and another thread. We have been floating new ideas all along the way in an effort to get the best

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/27/2011 4:48 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. -- Guido van Rossum (from http://www.wxpython.org/quotes.

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/27/11 1:11 PM, rantingrick wrote: Actually we don't want "Robins wxPython" in the stdlib "as is" anyway. What we DO want is an abstraction API for the short term that plugs into Robin's wx. Then over the long term we will either convince him to create a better API OR just create our own wxPy

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/27/2011 2:28 PM rantingrick said... And by removing Tkinter not only would we take a huge burden from py-dev but we would also free Tkinter from the chains of stdlib. Actually, IIRC, very little effort is put into maintaining tkinter by the py-dev crowd. I think I saw a post by Martin th

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/27/2011 05:08 PM, rantingrick wrote: >> wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a >> number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard >> Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. >> -- Guido van Rossum > > You forgot to put a date on

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 3:54 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-01-27, rantingrick wrote: > > >> AS far as I know, Guido has never recommended any particular gui and I > >> believe he has avoided doing so when asked. > > > Yes but his silence speaks louder than words. He is saying " While i > > won't defend T

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 3:48 pm, Corey Richardson wrote: > A weak argument - yes. But the thought is there, and it's the thought > that counts, right? ;-) What thought? It screams lack of thought to me. We should just ignore a clearly better option because some other option was chosen first, THATS IT? Thats

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 3:48 pm, Corey Richardson wrote: > On 01/27/2011 04:10 PM, rantingrick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 27, 2:00 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> On 1/27/2011 12:54 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > >>> Everything that's not accessible is not recommended. > > >> By you. We get that. > > >>

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/27/2011 1:38 PM rantingrick said... Continuing to lug Tkinter around is killing Python's evolution. Huh? Can you provide a reference where someone passed over python because of tkinter's inclusion in the standard library? You certainly can't mean that python's evolution over the past

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-27, rantingrick wrote: >> AS far as I know, Guido has never recommended any particular gui and I >> believe he has avoided doing so when asked. > > Yes but his silence speaks louder than words. He is saying " While i > won't defend Tkinter publicly, i won't promote any others as well".

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/27/2011 04:10 PM, rantingrick wrote: > On Jan 27, 2:00 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: >> On 1/27/2011 12:54 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> >>> Everything that's not accessible is not recommended. >> >> By you. We get that. >> >> >Tkinter should be at most accepted because there is no better solutio

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 3:19 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 1/27/2011 12:47 PM rantingrick said... > > > different choices OUTSIDE the stdlib. INSIDE the stdlib we have no > > choice. Just wanted to make that clear. > > Only when you restrict yourself to the artificial restriction of 'no > third party downl

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/27/2011 12:47 PM rantingrick said... different choices OUTSIDE the stdlib. INSIDE the stdlib we have no choice. Just wanted to make that clear. Only when you restrict yourself to the artificial restriction of 'no third party downloads allowed -- python must supply the right choice for m

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 2:00 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/27/2011 12:54 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > > Everything that's not accessible is not recommended. > > By you. We get that. > >  >Tkinter should be at most accepted because there is no better solution, > > As I said at the beginning of this thread, t

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 2:00 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > AS far as I know, Guido has never recommended any particular gui and I > believe he has avoided doing so when asked. He is happy that there are > different choices. different choices OUTSIDE the stdlib. INSIDE the stdlib we have no choice. Just wanted to

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/27/2011 12:57 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: A very important way to help would be to test accessibility features and post accurate, detailed, bug-reports. For example: pygui pretty much uses native widgets on Windows and OX and gtk (I believe) on *nix. How is the accessibility of those widget

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>Because healthy Linux users ARE NOT equal to handicapped people! O? I bet I could run circles around RR in the shell, any day. Why are you trying to promote accessibility for a group of people you consider not equal to a group of "healthy" people? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/27/2011 12:54 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: Everything that's not accessible is not recommended. By you. We get that. >Tkinter should be at most accepted because there is no better solution, As I said at the beginning of this thread, tkinter is currently the only option. What would have h

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Mark Roseman
Terry Reedy wrote: > > 1. The performance issues of having Tk use Tcl are negligible; the bulk > > of Tk (code-wise and time-wise) are spent in C. Tcl itself is also very > > fast nowadays, using all the usual techniques that modern dynamic > > languages use. > > I have the impression that tcl

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Alexander Kapps
On 27.01.2011 19:33, rantingrick wrote: Please don't use the lower accessibility percentage to prop up the low Linux percentage in an attempt to win your argument. Because healthy Linux users ARE NOT equal to handicapped people! Please don't put words into my mouth, idiot. And read my complete

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/27/2011 12:31 PM, Mark Roseman wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: Tk itself is purely a gui package -- abstract widgits, geometry placers to make them visible, and an event system to make them active. But it does have the baggage of needing tcl included. About a decade ago, some people had the id

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread rusi
On Jan 27, 11:45 pm, rantingrick wrote: > > When has Octavian been uncivil? This lecture of Octavian is ludicris! > You are such a friendly totalitarian, how do you keep a strait face -- > Col. Hans Landa? And this mutual 'support' between Octavian and Ranter is ludicris(sic) Its quite clear to

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 1/27/11 10:11 AM, rantingrick wrote: > On Jan 27, 1:28 am, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: >> But WxPython is their work and they decision is their. > Actually we The word "we" does not mean what you think it means. -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 27, 11:47 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-01-27, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > If you don't care about communicating with others, then being civil > probably does have no value (except for keeping a job or being > avoiding being beaten up on the playground).  If you want to > communicate (

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-27 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>* Disclaimer: You are stupid if you think this is true. But seriously, >Octavian makes it REALLY hard to continue caring about something that I >actually cared about before and thought was important. People like Octavian do that. Sadly, it is one of the things holding the blind community back. I

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