Did you spell it RepeatBehaviour or RepeatBehavior (shouldn't have the "u" on this side of the ocean. ;-)
Greg Iain Mackay wrote: > I ran into several problems running the first Avalon example from the > tutorial, using IP 0.9.6 > > I should mention that at this time I was running .net Framework 2.0 and the > Dec 2005 CTP preview of WPF x64 versions without the Framework SDK; > installing the SDK subsequently did not change the behaviour. > > I noticed three problems: > > - I couldn't set the Text attribute on a Window object > - I couldn't set the TextContent attribute on a TextBlock object > - the class RepeatBehaviour seems not to be imported. > > Another strange aspect is that I get this far when I enter the script > interactively to the console, but when I put the script in a file and > execute it from the command line I get the exception: > "System.InvalidOperationException: The calling thread must be STA, as many > UI components require this." on calling the Show method of the Window > object. I think I might need to rebuild the console to sort this out - C# > and .net threading models are rather a steep learning curve for this > evening, so I've stuck to interactive experiments for now. > > Here's my console experience following the tutorial: > > G:\downloads\ironpython\IronPython-0.9.6\IronPython-0.9.6\Tutorial>ironpytho > nconsole > IronPython 0.9.6 on .NET 2.0.50727.42 > Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. >>>> from avalon import * >>>> w=Window () >>>> w.Show () >>>> w.Text="Avalon app" > Traceback (most recent call last): > at <shell> > TypeError: can't set arbitrary attributes on built-in type > System.Windows.Window > > This is quite right, because Windows do not have a Text attribute. However, > if you set Title, all is well. > >>>> w.Content = TextBlock () >>>> w.Content.TextContent = "Hello IronPython!" > Traceback (most recent call last): > at <shell> > TypeError: can't set arbitrary attributes on built-in type > System.Windows.Contro > ls.TextBlock > > Similarly, w.Content.Text = "Hello IronPython", works just fine. You can > discover the attributes of w of course just by: > > for (key, value) in w.__dict__.items (): print key, value > > (Iron)Python is so cool like that. > >>>> w.Content.FontSize = 50 >>>> a=DoubleAnimation(0.0,Duration(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3))) >>>> a.RepeatBehaviour = RepeatBehaviour.Forever > Traceback (most recent call last): > at <shell> > NameError: name 'RepeatBehaviour' is not defined >>>> ^Z > > I didn't persist beyond here just yet. I suppose there have been some > substantial changes in object properties during the evolution of WPF as seen > in this latest preview, not yet reflected in the tutorial source - a life on > the bleeding edge thing. > >>>> import sys >>>> sys.path > ['G:\\downloads\\ironpython\\IronPython-0.9.6\\IronPython-0.9.6\\Tutorial', > 'G:\\downloads\\ironpython\\IronPython-0.9.6\\IronPython-0.9.6\\bin\\Lib'] > > Anyway, a whole lot of wonderful things are working straight out of the box, > including the XAML calculator. This is going to be a lot of fun. Thanks to > everyone for getting things this far. Am I doing something silly to get the > threading problem? > > Iain MacKay _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
