Re: Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-10-03 Thread Ed Leafe
On Sep 5, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Simon Cropper wrote: Dabo is a great product. Spoke extensively with Ed Leafe and Paul McNett. Unfortunately the framework is not 'dynamic'. If you have an fixed database and tables it can quite quickly create a basic data entry setup and menu. Looks great when

Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-09-05 Thread Simon Cropper
Hi, I am a applications developer - originally from Windows using primarily Visual Foxpro, although I am familiar with a variety of other xbase derivatives. I now use Linux / Ubuntu, and have been actively teaching myself Python with the view to migrate most of my applications to

Re: Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 03:18 pm Simon Cropper wrote: I am looking for the ability to create dynamic grids in a window but can't for the life of me find how to do this. What GUI toolkit are you using? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-09-05 Thread Simon Cropper
On 05/09/11 17:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 03:18 pm Simon Cropper wrote: I am looking for the ability to create dynamic grids in a window but can't for the life of me find how to do this. What GUI toolkit are you using? I have looked at wxGlade, Boa Constructor,

Re: Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-09-05 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 05/09/11 07:18, Simon Cropper wrote: I am looking for the ability to create dynamic grids in a window but can't for the life of me find how to do this. It depends on which windowing toolkit you're planning to use. If you use PyGTK, you'd want a TreeView widget to display the list. Fill a

Re: Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-09-05 Thread Simon Cropper
On 05/09/11 20:40, Thomas Jollans wrote: It depends on which windowing toolkit you're planning to use. If you use PyGTK, you'd want a TreeView widget to display the list. Fill a ListStore instance with your data and give that to the TreeView. You can implement filtering and sorting on top of

Re: Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-09-05 Thread python
Hi Simon, I am a applications developer - originally from Windows using primarily Visual Foxpro, although I am familiar with a variety of other xbase derivatives. Check out dabodev.com. Dabo is a Python framework created by former VFP developers. Highly recommended. Malcolm --

Re: Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-09-05 Thread Simon Cropper
On 05/09/11 23:23, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: Check out dabodev.com. Dabo is a Python framework created by former VFP developers. Dabo is a great product. Spoke extensively with Ed Leafe and Paul McNett. Unfortunately the framework is not 'dynamic'. If you have an fixed database and tables

Re: Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-09-05 Thread alex23
On Sep 5, 3:18 pm, Simon Cropper simoncrop...@fossworkflowguides.com wrote: My investigations have generally found that windows/forms/data entry screen can be created for a specific table or view, but these are hard-wired during development. Is there anyway of rapidly defining the grid during

Re: Hello, and request for help with 'dynamic grids'

2011-09-05 Thread Simon Cropper
On 06/09/11 00:40, alex23 wrote: On Sep 5, 3:18 pm, Simon Croppersimoncrop...@fossworkflowguides.com wrote: My investigations have generally found that windows/forms/data entry screen can be created for a specific table or view, but these are hard-wired during development. Is there anyway of