[Pythonmac-SIG] module metrics and Framework comparisons

2008-02-04 Thread DavidW
Hi All, Does anyone know of a set of (formalized software engineering) metrics against which (python) modules can be evaluated? I am about to (yet again) summarise several modules which do similar things and I wondered if anyone knows of a such a set. I'd like to be able to include things like

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Guages, Sliders, Graphs and py2app

2008-02-04 Thread DavidW
Hi Kenneth, I can confirm Chris' pointers to wxPython (google for an excellent book on the topic) and there's a useful development framework which I use: wxglade.sourceforge.net/ I also use matplotlib with wxPython - just be careful to get the right version - I've never py2app'ed any of it

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Guages, Sliders, Graphs and py2app

2008-02-04 Thread Christopher Barker
Kenneth miller wrote: > I like Tk, it's simple, but it's too simple for what I > want to do. I'd like to be able to display data using widgets like a > thermometer, guages (like in your car), orthogonal graphs, polar graphs, > etc. Is there a python GUI framework available with these types of >

[Pythonmac-SIG] Guages, Sliders, Graphs and py2app

2008-02-04 Thread Kenneth miller
All, Couple quick questions here. I've got a small program I'm distributing, all in python, and I'm relying on py2app to distribute it. Which is fine, I can even get it to work with Tk etc. I like Tk, it's simple, but it's too simple for what I want to do. I'd like to be able to displa

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Key Bindings on cross platform apps.

2008-02-04 Thread Nicholas Riley
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:52:43PM -0500, Tom Pollard wrote: > My recollection is that the control key has been around since the > stone ages (ASR-33 teletypes, at least) and that many of the standard > control-key combinations (ctl-C, for one) had their well-defined > meanings long before th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Key Bindings on cross platform apps.

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Pollard
On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > I've found that most apps these days follow the same convention for > the really > standard stuff -- cut/copy/paste, save, except that the Mac uses > "command" where Windows and Linux (which is to say KDE, GNOME, and > Mozilla) use "control

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Key Bindings on cross platform apps.

2008-02-04 Thread Christopher Barker
Nehemiah Dacres wrote: > What is the difference between this editor and editra The big difference is that Peppy has been designed to be more flexible and expendable -- I think it has the potential to be a really great editor for ALL types of text files (and some others -- binary, etc.). Some o

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Key Bindings on cross platform apps.

2008-02-04 Thread Christopher Barker
Jack Jansen wrote: > There are some apps that have sets of keyboard shortcuts and let you > switch between them with a preference. Yes, and Peppy is one of them -- one of it's strengths. > This is very handy, because now a > Mac user of application X can chose whether s/he wants Mac-oriented

[Pythonmac-SIG] Error in py2app

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Mallett
Hi, I'm getting the following error when running py2app: *** creating application bundle: Gravity *** Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\dev\Python25\lib\site-packages\py2app- 0.3.6-py2.5.egg\py2app\build_ap p.py", line 548, in _run self.run_normal() File "C:\dev\Python25\lib\sit

[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing Cantera

2008-02-04 Thread Tavis
Hello, I'm using os 10.4.11. I installed python2.4.4 and got it running as well as numarray, and it seems to be running as well (import numarray doesn't create any error messages.) I've been trying to install cantera next. When i run the installer it seems to install everything except python.