Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jun 10, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Colin J. Williams wrote: > >> It is the DaboDemo, downloaded from your site. You can see that there >> were a small number of svn applied updates on 9-Jun-07. >> >> To give the picture, a 7z file is attached. > > Sorry, due to the ease of spreading virii via email, all lists I > host have their attachments stripped. > >> In dabo\Docs, there is an Install Guide but this give no >> recommendation with respect to DaboDemo or the visual tools you >> mention above. > > That's true. The install guide is for the framework itself. The most > up-to-date information is on the Wiki; check out http://dabodev.com/ > wiki/InstallationOnWindows > >> In any event the location of DaboDemo shouldn't impact the example I >> posted. > > The problem, as I understand it, is that putting things in site- > packages can change the order that Python 'sees' things. I think that probably applies to pth usage, rather than site-packages, I'll check. > > Also, you were running simpleDemo2.py from a directory named > 'DaboDemo'. One thing that is confusing, and which I am hoping we can > remedy soon, is the disorganized nature of the demo directory. As we > developed Dabo, and someone asked a question that was answered with a > short program, it got thrown into the demo directory. Last year, > though, I started to create an organized program called 'DaboDemo' > that mirrored the wxPython demo program. Eventually, that will be the > only program used to run demos; other demos will either be > incorporated into DaboDemo, or moved into separate downloads. > >> As you can see, a person who is exploring the feasibility of using >> Dabo needs some clearer guidance. > > Have you looked at the wiki? Most of our current docs are there. > Perhaps the downloaded docs should be updated with a link to the wiki. > >> Incidentally, it seems that Dabo has not moved towards using the "new" >> Class. Python 2.6 is due in the next year and Python 3K is on the >> horizon. > > Can you explain what you mean by this? All Dabo classes inherit from > our dObject class, which in turn is based on the Python 'object' class. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > I'll move DaboDemo out of site-packages, try it again and then respond more fully.
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