[ cc'ing the Kamaelia list in case it makes sense to move this conversation there. ] On Sunday 02 October 2005 15:20, Joseph Quigley wrote: > Hi Michael, > You're explanation helped a lot, however, I'm really not good at gui > programming and the irc client was supposed to be a console application, > but: Would it be hard to just have a send texbox and receive read-only > text box?
It shouldn't be difficult at all really. If you find an example of a hello world program, and a "hello who are you" program, then it's just a simple matter of using that. If you're happy using pygame as a display, then you could use our Ticker component already. Example 11 shows how to use the Ticker. (Essentially though it takes text strings on it's inbox and displays them. Which gives you a read-only text box) I should've thought of it sooner though, but you //could// do this: pipeline( ConsoleReader(), IRCClient(host="server", port = 6667, nick = "userid", nickinfo = "myclient 1.0", defaultChannel = "#test" ), Ticker(background_colour=(128,48,128), render_left = 1, render_top = 1, render_right = 600, render_bottom = 200, position = (100, 300), ) ).run() We don't actually have a console reader component, but it's simple to knock one up. The only complicating factor here is that reading from the console can be blocking which would lock up the whole system. As a result you'd want that to be a threaded component. (The API for those needs cleaning up admittedly) However the code and simple system test for that looks like this: ################################ # Tested on my machine just now and works :-):-) from Axon.ThreadedComponent import threadedcomponent from Kamaelia.Util.ConsoleEcho import consoleEchoer from Kamaelia.Util.PipelineComponent import pipeline class ConsoleReader(threadedcomponent): def run(self): # Threaded components use this method instead of "main" while 1: line = raw_input() line = line + "\n" self.outqueues["outbox"].put(line) pipeline(ConsoleReader(), consoleEchoer() ).run() ####################### Considering we do have a nascent IRClient component in /Sketches, the Ticker exists and the above ConsoleReader exists, this might speed things up for you. > I'll try this, but I think I should mention that I'm using python-irclib > from sourceforge. I'd suggest that our IRCClient code is nowhere near complete though, and whilst I've not tried python-irclib, I'd suggest looking at our IRCClient component to see how you might want to rewrite it to use python-irclib. > I'll try Kamaelia, thanks a lot. Please do. If you're willing to wait 24 hours we're doing the 0.3 release, which is a much expanded base to work with. If you can't wait, do a cvs checkout of the whole tree - ie: mkdir kamaelia cd kamaelia # So easy to forget to do this, leaving clutter everywhere :-):-) cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/kamaelia login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/kamaelia co -d . That'll leave you with a full check out. You'll need to then install Axon: cd Code/Python/Axon python setup.py install Similarly to install Kamaelia: cd Code/Python/Kamaelia python setup.py install You'll then find an example program using the ticker in: Code/Python/Kamaelia/Examples/example11 You might also find Code/Python/Kamaelia/Examples/example9 of interest given your query on the pygame list regarding moving pictures about. :):) It's a **simple** game designed to amuse very young children bouncing sprites around the screen. It demonstrates very simple keyboard handling as well - specifically pausing, unpausing and toggling movement. As I say to everyone who looks at Kamaelia - if you find it useful, that's great - if you have any ideas for improvement, please let us know. If you have any criticisms (postive or negative - especially if negative) please let us know. Finally if you want to share any components back to the project we'd be happy to merge them first into sketches and then into the main tree if there's a logical fit. Even a trivial component (such as the one above) has a useful place in the tree - as you can see from this reply :-):-) Best Regards, Michael. -- "Though we are not now that which in days of old moved heaven and earth, that which we are, we are: one equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and fate but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield" -- "Ulysses", Tennyson _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
