Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-08-01 Thread Marek Kubica
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:13:14 -0700 Cliff Wells wrote: But how stable is GTK on systems such as Windows and OS/X? That has been what has kept me from using it. Most GTK apps I've used on Windows (including the venerable GIMP) are nowhere near as stable as their Linux counterparts (although

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-08-01 Thread Cliff Wells
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 14:20 +0200, Marek Kubica wrote: If you already tried GIMP on Windows, better try Inkscape on Windows.. that piece of GTK software is really good. I don't do any actual work under Windows any more. My Windows VMware session is purely for testing Windows apps and websites

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-31 Thread Cliff Wells
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 16:52 -0700, Bugs wrote: Cliff Wells wrote: But how stable is GTK on systems such as Windows and OS/X? That has been what has kept me from using it. Most GTK apps I've used on Windows (including the venerable GIMP) are nowhere near as stable as their Linux

The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Peter Hansen
Ed Leafe wrote: On Saturday 30 July 2005 12:28, Peter Decker wrote: It would be great if the wxPython folks would adopt Dabo, Thanks for the vote of encouragement! Our goal isn't to muddy the waters; it is simply to create a consistent API for coding. There is already a great GUI

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Ed Leafe
On Saturday 30 July 2005 13:41, Peter Hansen wrote: The last time I checked (as I recall), at least Wax and possibly Dabo both either lagged well behind recent wxPython developments of provide relatively limited support, leaving out a sizable and (to me) important number of features from what

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Paul Rubin
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The last time I checked (as I recall), at least Wax and possibly Dabo both either lagged well behind recent wxPython developments of provide relatively limited support, leaving out a sizable and (to me) important number of features from what they wrapped.

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Peter Decker
On 30 Jul 2005 12:06:43 -0700, Paul Rubin http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid wrote: wxPython also depends on wxWidgets which lags behind GTK. Can you elaborate on that? It's been over a year since I last looked at GTK, but I do remember not being very impressed with how it looked on Windows and OS X.

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Jorge Godoy
Ed Leafe wrote: There are also several classes in wxPython that Dabo has not wrapped, primarily the lower-level drawing classes and some of the newer graphics classes, mainly because they weren't needed for a database application framework. However, if there's a need, we'll be glad to add

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Ed Leafe
On Saturday 30 July 2005 16:06, Jorge Godoy wrote: If it is added, let us know.  I can't think of a better way to visualize database reports in an easy and fast way.  Specially for BI. What specifically are you looking for? We are working on the report writing engine now, tying in ReportLab.

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Cliff Wells
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 12:06 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The last time I checked (as I recall), at least Wax and possibly Dabo both either lagged well behind recent wxPython developments of provide relatively limited support, leaving out a sizable and (to

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Jorge Godoy
Ed Leafe wrote: On Saturday 30 July 2005 16:06, Jorge Godoy wrote: If it is added, let us know.  I can't think of a better way to visualize database reports in an easy and fast way.  Specially for BI. What specifically are you looking for? We are working on the report writing engine

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Ed Leafe
On Saturday 30 July 2005 17:44, Jorge Godoy wrote: Bar and line graphics, mainly.  In an easy and portable way.  Something that calculates the axis scales automatically, that allows users to change some information, add legends, put values in specific points and all those things that are

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Jorge Godoy
Ed Leafe wrote: I'll defer this to my partner, Paul McNett. He's spearheading the reporting module for Dabo, and may know of some tools that are already out there that could generate the image, which Dabo could then display. There are some out there. There's one implementation that is

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Bugs
Cliff Wells wrote: But how stable is GTK on systems such as Windows and OS/X? That has been what has kept me from using it. Most GTK apps I've used on Windows (including the venerable GIMP) are nowhere near as stable as their Linux counterparts (although this may not be entirely the fault