Ed Leafe wrote: > On Nov 11, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Carl Karsten wrote: > >>> I'd say you'd be better off just focusing on the way that dabo.ui >>> works. >> I want a taste of what I will need when (i think) the dabo.ui >> doesn't work and >> (i think) I need to debug. which (i think) will never happen, >> right? :) > > Never! ;-) > > Even in the rare case where something in dabo.ui isn't working, > going down to the wxPython level won't be necessary. The only time > you would ever need to worry about how wxPython does something is if > you were working on the Dabo framework itself, rather than developing > *with* the framework.
I have a feeling I will be venturing into framework development. Talk to Feltman's - fear me!! > >>> I do a lot of small desktop GUI apps, so >>> Dabo, especially dabo.ui, is just what I need. >> er, what 'add-ons' should we become familiar with to better our app >> development >> with Dabo experience? > > Like Python itself, Dabo comes with "batteries included". Everything > you need to create an app is in Dabo. The only time you would need an > add-on is if you were creating a very specialized type of app. In > that case, the answer would depend on what that specialty was. I want to have some clue how to do this: "Next step is to use pure python (probably at the interactive console) to connect to the driver, get a cursor, execute the select statement, and view the results." Which to me seems like a common set of step when debugging mystery problems. I realize debugging is a whole R&D thing, not a set of simple steps that can be scripted, but I am guessing there will be a concentration of something. For instance, how would you do these 2 things in a debugging session (so only using 'standard' python, no suspicious stuff: 1. select iid, ccity from zipcodes where cstateprov = 'za' and print the 2 values to the console, much like issuing that at the mysql> prompt. 2. hook a UI to a variable, or whatever UI's edit. I have no idea what this entails. If it is more then 10 lines, forget I asked. This is a bit more complex than what I expect for #2, but here is some code I just wrote to help debug a VFP grid problem: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~SampleGridPrg Carl K _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
