Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-05-01 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 01 May 2011 18:11, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: Am 01.05.2011 02:47, schrieb Shawn Milochik: Look at the big two sites for open-source repositories -- github and bitbucket. One's git, the other Mercurial. I don't think you can go wrong picking either one. Can any of those be used

Re: Python users in Stavanger, Norway?

2011-04-03 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 03 April 2011 09:32, Austin Bingham wrote: I'm a Python developer in Stavanger, Norway looking for other Python users/developers/etc. who might be interested in starting a local user group. Anyone interested? This group might actually evolve into a general programming/computer

Re: PyQT: QWebView with custom QNetworkAccessManager

2011-02-02 Thread David Boddie
On Wednesday 02 February 2011 00:31, Gelonida wrote: I would like to subclass QNetworkAccessManager and create a subclass of QWebView, that will use the subclassed QNetworkAccessManager for all accesses. Is this possible? I have really no idea when and how I could achieve this. Thanks

Re: Use the Source Luke

2011-01-30 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 30 January 2011 05:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote: If I *wanted* to index my files, I could do so, although in fairness I'm not aware of any Linux tools which do this -- I know of `locate`, which indexes file *names* but not content, and `grep`, which searches file content but doesn't

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-23 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 23 January 2011 17:57, rantingrick wrote: On Jan 22, 9:39 pm, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 1/22/2011 7:07 PM, rantingrick wrote: Near the beginning of this thread, I gently challenged you to produce a concrete, practical proposal for an stdlib addition that could be

Re: After C++, what with Python?

2011-01-16 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 16 January 2011 08:35, geremy condra wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Aman aman.6...@gmail.com wrote: It would be great if you people could guide me as to what to proceed with and how. Here's what I would do: [Snip advice] Maybe it would be good to expand the Getting

Re: How suitable is Python to write system utilities?

2011-01-06 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 06 January 2011 12:08, Alice Bevan?McGregor wrote: Python does include libraries (and has available third-party libraries) to interface with external low-level libraries of every kind, has Python-native third-party libraries to do things like examine ELF object files /

Re: Generating PDF file in Python

2010-10-30 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 30 October 2010 04:27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message mailman.256.1288099490.2218.python-l...@python.org, Ed Keith wrote: I need to generate PDF files and I'm exploring what tools to use. I was planing on using ReportLab, but recently found some references to pango

Re: pyqt4 Table Widget deleting c/c++ object

2010-10-19 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 18 October 2010 23:26, Andrew wrote: I have two issues dealing with the table widget, though they may be interconnected. I'm not sure. Both delete the cell widgets off of my table but leave the rows, and then when I have the table update, it complains the c++ object has been

Re: Deleting widgets from PyQt4 QFormWidget

2010-09-16 Thread David Boddie
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 18:53, Andrew wrote: I'm trying to remove the widgets from the QFormLayout widget from PyQt4. According to the documentation I should be able to use the command .takeAt(int) which will delete the widget from the layout and then return to me the QLayoutWidget.

Re: Cross Compiling Python for ARM

2010-09-14 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 21:19, Thomas Jollans wrote: On Tuesday 14 September 2010, it occurred to Neil Benn to exclaim: # ./python -sh: ./python: not found I'm guessing either there is no file ./python, or /bin/sh is fundamentally broken. Yes, it may be instructive to use the

Re: PyQt Ram Usage

2010-05-03 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 03 May 2010 22:49, Country Boy wrote: I am new to Python (and programming so pardon my ignorance) I have a small PyQt program that lives in windows system tray. I am using Suds ElemetTree to do webservices call and parse XML. I have a QTimer that runs every 30 seconds and fetches

Re: highlight words by regex in pdf files using python

2010-03-17 Thread David Boddie
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 00:47, Aahz wrote: In article af0830ae-1d24-4db9-b721-d6602fedd...@15g2000yqi.googlegroups.com, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't find a general pdf library in python that can do any operations on pdfs. I want to automatically highlight certain words

Re: Some PyCon videos won't play

2010-03-14 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 13 March 2010 20:01, Terry Reedy wrote: On 3/13/2010 11:23 AM, Lee Harr wrote: I am having a great time watching videos from PyCon. Thanks to everyone who presented, and to those who did such a great job putting the videos up at: http://pycon.blip.tv/ My trouble is that,

Re: Problem creating executable, with PyQwt

2010-02-23 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 05:32, Gib Bogle wrote: David Boddie wrote: I have previously referred people with py2exe/PyQt issues to this page on the PyQt Wiki: http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Py2exeAndPyQt If you can somehow convince py2exe to include the QtSvg module

Re: Problem creating executable, with PyQwt

2010-02-21 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 22 February 2010 01:17, Gib Bogle wrote: quote Traceback (most recent call last): File ABM15.pyw, line 15, in module File PyQt4\Qwt5\__init__.pyc, line 32, in module File PyQt4\Qwt5\Qwt.pyc, line 12, in module File PyQt4\Qwt5\Qwt.pyc, line 10, in

Re: PyQt4 designer custom properties - combo box style

2010-02-06 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 06 February 2010 10:32, Andrew wrote: I'm attempting to create a drop down property for a custom widget I'm creating. So when in designer and you scroll down to the custom properties, under the regular widget properties, one of them would be a drop down menu. The data to populate

Re: PyQt4 designer custom properties - combo box style

2010-02-04 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 22:25, Andrew wrote: I am creating custom widgets for the PyQt4 Designer. I can create custom properties, but I'm looking for how to create a custom property that has a combo box drop down. I've seen them in the example widgets and tried following them, but they

Re: Undo/Redo in PyQt

2010-01-13 Thread David Boddie
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 02:20, Zabin wrote: I am trying to implement the undo and redo facility in pyqt. I have gone through some sites and was wondering whether iyou always need to create subclasses and their definitions for the undo/redo action. My program currently has a single window

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-14 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 14 December 2009 20:02, Donn wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009 00:10:52 David Boddie wrote: Doesn't the author give his e-mail address at the end of the video? (Maybe I'm thinking of a different video.) Yes, in a quick and garbled way :) I have yet to try to contact the author

Re: pyZui - anyone know about this?

2009-12-13 Thread David Boddie
On Friday 11 December 2009 05:41, Donn wrote: I happened upon this youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nWm984wdY It fairly blew my socks off. In it a fellow by the name of David Roberts demos a zui written in Python. Aside from the zooming (which is impressive enough) it show

Re: PyQt4 4.4.4 : a bug with highlightBlock ?

2009-11-20 Thread David Boddie
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 11:47, Snouffy wrote: I've been trying to do some syntax highlighting using PyQt4. I ported the example given in the documentation of Qt4 to Python. It works fine on my computer at work (which has PyQt4 version 4.3.3) but doesn't on my home computer (which has

Re: python gui builders

2009-11-20 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 19 November 2009 11:50, Simon Hibbs wrote: I don't think a list like this is a great way to do that. There are plenty of examples and tutorials available for each option. This site has a selection of tutorials that can be used to compare API and code styles: http://zetcode.com/

Re: PyQt processEvents not processing

2009-11-07 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 07 November 2009 05:12, DarkBlue wrote: qt 4.5.3 pyqt 4.6.1 python 2.6 I have this QtTable widget which I want to refresh once about every 2 seconds with new data. so I do : def updateSchedule(self): for j in range(0,10): doUpdate()

Re: PyQT4 user group

2009-10-29 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 29 October 2009 17:15, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Chris wrote: I'm starting to learn and use PyQT4 at work. Is there a good user group or forum out there that I should know about? The PyQt Mailinglist. There's a #pyqt IRC channel on Freenode: irc://irc.freenode.net/pyqt The

Re: Substitute for KConfig in Qt4

2009-09-22 Thread David Boddie
On Sat Sep 19 12:18:40 CEST 2009, nusch wrote: On Sep 19, 3:53 am, David Boddie da... at boddie.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 17 September 2009 13:04, nusch wrote: I want to remove pyKDE dependencies from my app to make it pure PyQt. What will be the best substitute for KConfig? What

Re: Substitute for KConfig in Qt4

2009-09-18 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 17 September 2009 13:04, nusch wrote: I want to remove pyKDE dependencies from my app to make it pure PyQt. What will be the best substitute for KConfig? What exactly do you use KConfig for in your application? David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cross platform TTF font render from Python [was: Load TTF from pycairo under Windows]

2009-09-18 Thread David Boddie
On Friday 18 September 2009 08:54, Laszlo Nagy wrote: I need to render antialiased PNG images using TTF font files and UTF-8 text. It needs to be available at least on Linux and Windows. This is what I have tried: [...] #4. pygame - documentation looks great, it is cross platform. But the

Re: PyQt QCompleter model

2009-09-16 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 17 September 2009 01:14, nusch wrote: The following code: strings=[asdad, baasd, casd, caxd] completer = QCompleter(strings) model = completer.model() print model.rowCount() model.stringList().append(test) This may not work as you expect. Although it may actually modify the

Re: PyQT Qthread stuck main app

2009-09-15 Thread David Boddie
On Tue Sep 15 12:59:35 CEST 2009, daved170 wrote: my problem is that when start is pusshed the entire window stuck and it's impossible to push the STOP button and even when it looks like it's been pushed it actually don't do anything. any idea how to fix it? Does adding a call to the base

Re: Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt source code

2009-09-10 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 10 September 2009, Steven Woody wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:33 PM, David Boddie dbod...@trolltech.com wrote: See this page for the links: http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html but the URL is not reachable from here. is there another URL? thanks. Can't you access anything

Re: Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt source code

2009-09-09 Thread David Boddie
On Wed Sep 9 07:11:26 CEST 2009, Steven Woody wrote: *I've searched google and cannot find a valid link for the source code of the book Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt. Could anyone please give me a non-broken URL?* See this page for the links: http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html

Re: Flowcharting in Python?

2009-09-07 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 00:09, Grant Edwards wrote: Have you looked at Skencil (nee Sketch)? It's a vector/object-oriented drawing program written in Python: http://www.skencil.org/ It's not really optimized for flowcharts or block diagrams (IIRC, it doens't have any concept of

Re: Qstrings to Strings

2009-09-03 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:01, Stefan Behnel wrote: Helvin wrote: Just wanted to say, to convert qstrings (or integers for that matter) to strings, use the str() function. http://learnwithhelvin.blogspot.com/2009/09/qstrings-and-strings.html Hmmm, will that return a Unicode string?

Re: Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

2009-08-25 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 13:24, Wolfgang Keller wrote: The area of _desktop_ database application development indeed looks like a vast and very hostile desert in the Python landscape. The only framework that seems to be worth trying is Dabo. Unfortunately there's little documentation, and

Re: Pyserial and pyQt

2009-07-21 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 21:37, Seth wrote: I have used pyserial in the past but this is my first experience with pyQt. I am using the Python xy package for windows current but might move to linux. I have a small device that is outputting a basic text string. I want to be able to read this

Re: PyQt4 + WebKit

2009-06-05 Thread David Boddie
On Friday 05 June 2009 21:33, dudekks...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 Cze, 22:05, David Boddie da...@boddie.org.uk wrote: I experimented a little and added an example to the PyQt Wiki: http://www.diotavelli.net/PyQtWiki/Usinga Custom Protocol with QtWebKit I hope it helps to get you started

Re: PyQt4 + WebKit

2009-06-01 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 01 June 2009 16:16, dudekks...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 Maj, 02:32, David Boddie da...@boddie.org.uk wrote: So, you only want to handle certain links, and pass on to WebKit those which you can't handle? Is that correct? Yes, I want to handle external links (out of my host

Re: PyQt4 + WebKit

2009-05-30 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 30 May 2009 17:39, dudekks...@gmail.com wrote: I need to grab clicked links in QWebView. Everything is fine when I use linkClicked() signal. LinkDelegationPolicy is set to DelegateAllLinks and there is a problem. If some site has Javascript my procedure receives QUrl from

Re: any lib to extract pages form pdf and then merge?

2009-05-26 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 06:47, oyster wrote: I want to extract some pages from vary pdf files, then write them with/witout rotation into one new pdf file. something likes this [...] I have tried pypdf, but it errs and exits on some of my pdfs(no, the files have no password) Maybe you could

Re: Can't run PyQt apps with MacPython

2009-05-13 Thread David Boddie
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 17:53, Morad wrote: I recently got a new MacBook Pro with Leopard, and would like to develop using Python and PyQt. I installed the latest Qt SDK, updated MacPython to V 2.5.4 and then proceeded to install SIP and PyQt as described in Mark Summerfield's book on PyQt

Re: stuck with PyOBEX

2009-05-03 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 03 May 2009 10:33, alejandro wrote: Yes! I'll send you an updated version to try if you would like to test it. My mails to you keep getting returned, so I've put it here: http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/PyOBEX/Software/PyOBEX-0.21.zip Please let me know if it works

Re: stuck with PyOBEX

2009-05-02 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 02 May 2009 14:25, alejandro wrote: I am having problems with connect() it says that it doesn't have sendall atribute. Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File novi_pokusaj.py, line 25, in module client.connect() File C:\Python25\lib\PyOBEX\client.py, line

Re: stuck with PyOBEX

2009-04-29 Thread David Boddie
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 07:42, alejandro wrote: So I should connect trough pybluez and send with obex?? Yes, or you could try lightblue: http://lightblue.sourceforge.net/ I've updated PyOBEX to try and be a bit more flexible when it comes to Bluetooth socket implementations, so you might

Re: stuck with PyOBEX

2009-04-28 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 18:34, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: This module asks the socket module for AF_BLUETOOTH... in the socket module there is no such thing as AF_BLUETOOTH. Could it be that the person that made PyOBEX modified his socket module and forgot to give his socket module? Or am I

Re: cross compile Python to Linux-ARM

2009-03-21 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 19 March 2009 17:54, jefm wrote: We are looking to use Python on an embedded Linux ARM system. What I gather from googling the subject is that it is not that straight forward (a fair amount of patching hacking). Nobody out there that has done it claims it is easy, which makes me

Re: HOWTO for setting up a PyQt project in Eclipse ?

2009-02-05 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 05 February 2009 18:13, Linuxguy123 wrote: Does anyone know of a HOWTO for setting up a PyQt project in Eclipse ? I know about setting up a PyDev project, just wondering how to integrate the QtDesigner parts. For example, should I save the QtDesigner project in the root PyDev

Re: Cross platform compilation?

2009-02-04 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 03:59, John Harper wrote: Before I try to reverse engineer completely setup.py, is there something obvious that needs to be done to get it to use the right tool chain? I think it's more complicated than that, though in an ideal world it wouldn't have to be that

Re: Calling Python-tk code from C/C++

2009-01-27 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 18:29, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:42:01 -0200, Rajorshi Biswas rajor...@in.com escribió: Hello all, This is my first post to this mailing list. Our requirement is to invoke a Tkinter python panel from a C++ GUI app where both GUI windows

Re: how to dock another application under Linux ?

2008-12-18 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 18 December 2008 20:09, Stef Mientki wrote: Under windows it's fairly easy to capture an application and dock in to your own wxPython application, something like this: - start the external application from within wxPython - give the caption of the application a special name -

Re: PyQt: Pulling Abstract Item Data from Mime Data using Drag and Drop.

2008-12-12 Thread David Boddie
On Friday 12 December 2008 02:05, Mudcat wrote: The drag is working up until the point I try to actually retrieve the data. At that point I get an unhandled Runtime Error saying no access to protected functions or signals for objects not created in Python. That's correct, retrieveData() is a

Re: is there really no good gui builder

2008-11-09 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 09 November 2008 13:45, Ben Finney wrote: Duncan Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mr.SpOOn wrote: What's the problem with qt licence? You must purchase a Qt Commercial License from Qt Software or from one of its authorized resellers before you start developing commercial

Re: is there really no good gui builder

2008-11-09 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 09 November 2008 20:08, Duncan Booth wrote: So are the references to 'Qt Open Source License' on the website misleading? It depends on whether you assume that there's a separate license by that name. In practice, it's a placeholder for the licenses it's available under: The Open

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-14 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 12:55, lkcl wrote: hello_loader.py is the main err um i just double- checked, so i'd be able to advise you and... err... the problem i described (with the GridTest) seems to have... gone away!! There are lots of references to PyGTK classes in there. Is

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-13 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 13 October 2008 11:42, lkcl wrote: i don't know if it _was_ detached from the layout, but it was definitely still visible. see http://pyjs.org/examples/gridtest/output/GridTest.html for the example i was porting to pyqt4. each time i clicked Next, a new set of N,N would be

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 11 October 2008 11:19, lkcl wrote: pyqt4 has the concept of layouts. a layout can be a horizontal layout, vertical, grid, and you can even specify the percentage or ratio of the width (or height) that individual cells can use. you attach a layout to a widget; you can attach

Re: PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

2008-10-11 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 11 October 2008 21:40, lkcl wrote: On Oct 11, 3:31 pm, David Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can remove layouts from layouts with the QLayout.removeItem() method. yes... it didn't work. a layout within a layout - i think it was a QHorizontalLayout within a QGridLayout

Re: Python and Open Office

2008-09-18 Thread David Boddie
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 21:59, Terry Reedy wrote: Hartmut Goebel wrote: Terry Reedy schrieb: The API docs are a bit hidden on the webpage. Here is the link: http://opendocumentfellowship.com/files/api-for-odfpy_2.odt I wrote my comment *after* looking at the above, which I found

Re: GUI programming with python

2008-09-12 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 13 September 2008 01:04, sturlamolden wrote: On Sep 12, 8:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Al Dykes) wrote: OK, what are my choices for an IDE/GUI development tool that runs on XP? [...] Cpython with PyQt: BlackAdder People using this combination apparently prefer Eric, these days:

Re: configure kdevelop for python

2008-09-02 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 31 August 2008 10:29, Sindhu wrote: am a newbie to python language and kdevelop, so i would like to know how to configure kdevelop for python programming? complete with a debugger? Maybe asking on the kdevelop mailing list will yield a helpful answer:

Re: Genetic programming: pygene, pygp, AST, or (gasp) Lisp?

2008-07-20 Thread David Boddie
On Sunday 20 July 2008 09:52, John Ladasky wrote: Is there a way to interface Lisp to Python, so that I can do all the interface programming in the language I already know best -- and just do the genetic parts in Lisp? I haven't seen exception handling in Lisp, a feature I've come to love in

Re: py2exe, PyQT, QtWebKit and jpeg problem

2008-06-23 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 23 June 2008 15:02, Carbonimax wrote: If I copy the dll in the dist directory, and I use QPluginLoader() and load(), it does work in the .py but it doesn't in .exe made with py2exe my code : dll = QPluginLoader(path_to_dll) res = dll.load() res == true in the .py res ==

Re: py2exe, PyQT, QtWebKit and jpeg problem

2008-06-20 Thread David Boddie
On Friday 20 June 2008 17:24, Phil Thompson wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:04:57 -0700 (PDT), Carbonimax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with py2exe and QtWebKit : I make a program with a QtWebKit view. If I launch the .py directly, all images (jpg, png) are displayed but if I

Re: PyQt - How to prevent a dialog being resized?

2008-04-01 Thread David Boddie
then on. David -- David Boddie Lead Technical Writer, Trolltech ASA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyQT / QDate / QTableWidget

2008-03-28 Thread David Boddie
going wrong, the end result should be a column in my QTableWidget formatted dd/mm/ that can be sorted as dates, not strings, and originate from data formatted MMDD Just use QDate objects instead of QDateTime objects and it should all just work. Good luck! David -- David Boddie Lead

EuroPython 2008 - Any interest in tutorials?

2008-03-17 Thread David Boddie
there! David Boddie - EuroPython 2008 participant :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyQt, Cannot send events to objects owned by a different thread?

2007-11-25 Thread David Boddie
On Sun Nov 25 15:22:24 CET 2007, Alexander Tuchacek wrote: i try to adress an qt object self.statusbar.showMessage(rtt %s % (n.rtt)) in an callback function, comming from a shared lib importet by ctypes, on osx this works wonderfull when i run the same code on linux (ubuntu

Re: OPLC purchase period extended

2007-11-24 Thread David Boddie
On Sat Nov 24 19:30:03 CET 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: The XO laptop comes with a built-in Python IDE, so everybody on c.l.p ought to have one... A nice idea in theory, but... 2. XO laptops will be shipped only to G1G1 participants and only to the street addresses they provide for

Re: Contextmenu in a QTreeWidget with PyQT

2007-11-22 Thread David Boddie
On Wed Nov 21 19:46:48 CET 2007, blaven wrote: I apologize in advance if this is not the correct forum to ask this and if someone knows a better place, please let me know. There is a mailing list for PyQt/PyKDE issues: http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt It's not a

Re: Drawing charts in Qt

2007-11-06 Thread David Boddie
On Tue Nov 6 15:46:07 CET 2007, Michel Albert wrote: [PyQwt and matplotlib] PyQwt looks much more interesting, but I have trouble installing it. On my machine it complains that sipconfig has no attribute '_pkg_config'. Is the configuration script finding the sipconfig file for SIP 3 or SIP

Re: Low-overhead GUI toolkit for Linux w/o X11?

2007-11-03 Thread David Boddie
On Sat Nov 3 20:45:54 CET 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm looking for GUI toolkits that work with directly with the Linux frambuffer (no X11). It's an embedded device with limited resources, and getting X out of the picture would be a big plus. The toolkit needs to be free and open-source.

Re: Low-overhead GUI toolkit for Linux w/o X11?

2007-11-03 Thread David Boddie
On Sun Nov 4 03:22:27 CET 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: I think we're definitely going to try to evaluate Qtopia on our platform to see if it's any quicker and smaller than wxWidgets/GTK+/X11. I guess that evaluation doesn't need to use Python -- in theory we sould be able to compare

PyQt with embedded python in Qt App

2007-11-02 Thread David Boddie
On Fri Nov 2 12:59:48 CET 2007, Bart. wrote: Or I want to use PyQt in scripts to have similar gui for plugins written in python Or I want to extend application by scripts with PyQt. Or better question: How to easy add python scripting in Qt application and have almast all objects of app

Re: fclient project seeking co-coders

2007-10-28 Thread David Boddie
On Sun Oct 28 11:49:17 CET 2007, Jürgen Urner wrote: I Just recently registered a project fclient to sourceforge.net [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fclient]. fclient is intended to become desktop client for the freenet [freenetproject.org] network written in python and Qt4. It sounds like

Re: PyQt ProgressBar

2007-10-16 Thread David Boddie
() But the bar remain fix to 0% don't increase. can you tell me how to prooced Can you post a complete runnable code example, either here (if it's short enough) or to the PyQt mailing list? Thanks, David -- David Boddie Lead Technical Writer, Trolltech ASA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread David Boddie
On Fri Oct 12 12:30:13 CEST 2007, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: I'd recommend wxPython over those becase 1) native look and feel on all platforms 2) doesn't require expensive licensing for non-commercial apps (QT) Expensive licensing is not required if you use the GNU General Public License

Re: How to display a videostream in the PyQt GUI by a efficient way

2007-09-30 Thread David Boddie
On Sun Sep 30 09:10:40 CEST 2007, Kivilaya wrote: I read the method in the given link and learn a lot from it. I'll try to display the data inside a QWidget directly instead of the current way. But I still have a question, is there any way to make the displaying of RGB data in a QWidget

Re: How to display a videostream in the PyQt GUI by a efficient way

2007-09-29 Thread David Boddie
On Sat Sep 29 05:12:25 CEST 2007, kivilaya wrote: As required, I need to get a videostream from a camera, and process every frame to add some information on it, and then display the frame in a PyQt GUI. But I don't know how to display the videostream in the PyQt GUI by a efficient way.

Script to extract text from PDF files

2007-09-26 Thread David Boddie
On Wed Sep 26 15:06:54 CEST 2007, byte8bits wrote: On Sep 25, 10:19 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l... at geek- central.gen.new_zealand wrote: This is inherent in the nature of PDF: it's a page-description language, not a document-interchange language. Each text-drawing command can put a

Re: Script to extract text from PDF files

2007-09-26 Thread David Boddie
On Wed Sep 26 23:50:16 CEST 2007, byte8bits wrote: On Sep 26, 4:49 pm, Svenn Are Bjerkem svenn.bjer... at googlemail.com wrote: I have downloaded this package and installed it and found that the text-extraction is more or less useless. Looking into the code and comparing with the PDF

Re: building a GUI

2007-09-23 Thread David Boddie
On Mon Sep 24 00:08:09 CEST 2007, stef mientki wrote: Phil Thompson wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2007, stef mientki wrote: Could well be, but I never looked at PyQt seriously, because of their weird license. It's not weird. It's either GPL or proprietary. Your choice. That's as

QPicture and Qpainter PyQt4

2007-09-17 Thread David Boddie
On Mon Sep 17 09:29:43 CEST 2007, luca72 wrote: class PictureFrame(QtGui.QFrame): def __init__(self, parent = None): QFrame.__init__(self, parent) picture = QtGui.QPicture() def paintEvent(self, event): picture.load('dis.pic') gr = QtGui.QPainter()

Re: Co-developers wanted: document markup language

2007-08-24 Thread David Boddie
On Fri Aug 24 11:04:33 CEST 2007, Torsten Bronger wrote: Paul Rubin writes: TeX/LateX have been around forever and are well established standards, as awful as they are. Why do we want ANOTHER markup language? Well, because they are awful. ;-) I don't see that there is a bunch of

Re: Adventure-Engines in Python

2007-08-13 Thread David Boddie
On Mon Aug 13 11:33:14 CEST 2007, Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: Are there any? I've set out to make an adventure game and now I'm trying to find a set of python-modules to help me do that. I know of the usual non-python suspects (AGAST, AGS, Wintermute, ...) and while I they are really

Re: Best programs written completly in Python

2007-08-05 Thread David Boddie
On Sun Aug 5 14:44:55 CEST 2007, Franz Steinhäusler wrote: I'm only interested to have a list, or even help to extend an existing one. If the main criterion is that the programs are written in Python then surely the PythonInfo Wiki is the place for such a list:

Re: [python-list] pdf read write

2007-07-27 Thread David Boddie
On Fri Jul 27 15:35:02 CEST 2007, Hyunchul Kim wrote: How can I read a pdf file and add invisible comment? I want to make a script which read a pdf file and add tags inside the file invisibly. Then, I will make a script for managing tags of given pdf files. I know referencer can manage

Re: Scope or PyQt question

2007-07-26 Thread David Boddie
On Thu Jul 26 18:00:44 CEST 2007, dittonamed wrote: On Jul 26, 10:15 pm, Stargaming stargam... at gmail.com wrote: Answering from a non-Qt point of view (ie. I don't know if there were cleaner ways using Qt stuff), you have to bind p somewhere not local to the function. Any attribute of

Re: Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 16)

2007-07-18 Thread David Boddie
On Wed Jul 18 23:20:51 CEST 2007, Cameron Laird wrote: Kay Schluehr kay.schluehr at gmx.net wrote: Not sure if it's important enough to be mentioned in weekly Python news but Europython 2007 actually happened and took place in Vilnius. *I* sure think it's important; is there a summary or

Re: Memory leak in PyQt application

2007-06-30 Thread David Boddie
On Thu Jun 28 19:21:36 CEST 2007, Alexander Eisenhuth wrote: I've a memory leak in a PyQt application and no idea how to find it. What happens in the application ? From QWindow a QDialog is called on a button pressed() signal, that instantiate a QThread and waits for it. If the thread

Re: how to query/test the state of a qt widget?

2007-06-24 Thread David Boddie
On Sun Jun 24 02:20:55 CEST 2007, raacampbell wrote: I'm writing a simple Python/Qt3 application and I am trying to write some code in which the user presses a button and the program performs action A or B depending upon the state of a pair of radio buttons. You would typically connect the

Re: Questions about mathematical and statistical functionality in Python

2007-06-17 Thread David Boddie
On Fri Jun 15 03:08:08 CEST 2007, Josh Gilbert wrote: In a similar vein, I wish there was a reasonable Free Software equivalent to Spotfire. The closest I've found (and they're nowhere near as good) are Orange (http://www.ailab.si/orange) and WEKA (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/).

Re: No Python for Blackberry?

2007-05-19 Thread David Boddie
On Saturday 19 May 2007 03:19, walterbyrd wrote: I could not find a version of Python that runs on a Blackberrry. I'm just amazed. A fairly popular platform, and no Python implementation? If you can get the hardware into the hands of capable developers, they'll put Python on it. ;-) David

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread David Boddie
On May 16, 7:44 am, Tina I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A binary would be ideal. I'll look into the freeze modules and Pyinstaller. Even if they don't handle huge things like Qt it would be a step in the right direction if it handles smaller third part modules. And maybe the smartest thing to do

Re: GUI tutorial

2007-05-14 Thread David Boddie
On May 14, 2:57 am, BartlebyScrivener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 13, 12:51 pm, John K Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone point me in the direction of a good tutorial on programming python with a GUI? Alan Gauld added a gui programming tutorial to his main course.

Re: Generate report containing pdf or ps figures?

2007-04-24 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 20:42, Cameron Laird wrote: I want to make sure we're all keeping up with each other, so I'll make explicit a couple of points, despite the risk of redundancy: A. Bundling GS is a little touchy, depending on what you mean by that. Check out its license. My

Re: Do other Python GUI toolkits require this?

2007-04-24 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 23 April 2007 15:55, Kevin Walzer wrote: I had originally thought that learning PyObjC might preclude me from having to learn Objective-C, but that seems not to be the case. I have previously found the same to be true with PyQt and wxPython--not knowing the toolkits as they are

Re: PYQT 3 communication with 2 windows

2007-04-20 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 19 April 2007 22:38, Marcpp wrote: Hi, I'm introducing to program in python + pyqt. I have a main window that call a second window (to introduce a info with textedit) when press the second window button I need to return to the main window the info introduced in the second

Re: Beginner: Formatting text output (PyQt4)

2007-04-20 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 19 April 2007 00:50, Glen wrote: What seems to be happening is that the font that pyqt is using is not fixed width, so I did this: qTxtFormat = QTextCharFormat() qTxtFormat.setFontFixedPitch(True) ui.textEdit.setCurrentCharFormat(qTxtFormat) It may be that the font you're using

Re: Beginner: Simple Output to a Dialog PyQt4

2007-04-20 Thread David Boddie
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 07:42, Glen wrote: I've written a script in python and put together a simple QFrame with a QTextBrowser with Designer. I've translated the C++ into python using puic4. Just to avoid any misunderstanding: the form is actually stored as XML. You can create C++

Re: Pyqt calling a custom dialog and returning the vars

2007-04-16 Thread David Boddie
On Monday 16 April 2007 22:06, Marcpp wrote: I call a dialog from a principal program but cannot return the value of the variables (text box's). Here is a example... [...] class ag (Agenda): ... ... def _slotAddClicked(self): d=dialogo1() d.exec_()

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