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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Different event handling of IDE / Python App ?
by Jack Jansen Jan. 30, 1999

Jan. 30, 1999

You'll probably want to add a call to MacOS.SchedParams to disable event processing by Sioux and the Python mainloop. IDE probably already does this for you (because it needs it itself). This should probably go in the documentation somewhere, as more and more people use IDE for development. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm

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Different event handling of IDE / Python App ?
by Peter Sommerfeld Jan. 28, 1999

Jan. 28, 1999

I'm writing my own eventloop and everything works well when using the IDE (1.5.2b1). I've checked now with dragging onto the Python app and BuiltApplet and under this conditions various ActivateEvents do not happen (Deaktivate always works). Any idea ? thanx - Peter

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Floating windows
by Jack Jansen Jan. 26, 1999

Jan. 26, 1999

> Sorry folks, my Mac documentation is somewhat outdated. > I need to know how to make floating windows. In windows.py > are some constants defined but my trial & error attempts > failed. Do you have any idea / example code ? I don't think you can make floating windows in Python at the moment. If someone can point me to the right bits of Inside Mac and it isn't too much work I can have a look at implementing them, though. Or, alternatively, if someone does know how to make floating windows currently: please let me know as well. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm

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Floating windows
by Peter Sommerfeld Jan. 26, 1999

Jan. 26, 1999

Sorry folks, my Mac documentation is somewhat outdated. I need to know how to make floating windows. In windows.py are some constants defined but my trial & error attempts failed. Do you have any idea / example code ? thanks - Peter

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] icon/graphic & shadow-mask
by Jack Jansen Jan. 26, 1999

Jan. 26, 1999

> I have slowly been learning how to do programming with Python, and I've > reached the point where I am learning Tkinter, because doing things with > the language itself (behind the scenes) is starting to make sense. I am > also starting to make some sense of the underlying Tkinter paradigm, and I > am attempting to write a simple game in Python using Tkinter. But I'm > missing something pretty basic: how do I make a graphic with an irregular > outline showup properly against an meaningful background? Bob, as your question appears to be more Tkinter-specific than Mac-specific, and since I haven't seen any answers come by (nor do I have a clue myself:-), maybe you should try asking a more general forum, like comp.lang.python? -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm

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And another Sherlock plugin...
by Jack Jansen Jan. 26, 1999

Jan. 26, 1999

Since Guido graciously made the Python documentation searchable separately here is another Sherlock plugin that only searches the docs. This plugin also has a set of icons, so you can quickly see which search results were returned by one of the Python plugins. The other two plugins also have icons now, but there's no need to attach them here: they'll auto-update the next time you use sherlock. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm

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Sherlock plugins for Python
by Jack Jansen Jan. 25, 1999

Jan. 25, 1999

Attached you will find two plugins for Sherlock, the all-singing-all-dancing search engine that Apple includes with MacOS 8.5. The Python.src plugin searches www.python.org, ftp.python.org and starship.skyport.net, just like the "easy" search on the python homepage does. The Python-FAQ.src plugin searches the FAQ. It is not 100% functional: the URLs returned by the FAQ search engine contain "&", which should be converted to "&" upon clicking the link in Sherlock, but this does not work. I'm not sure whether the FAQ engine is wrong in using ampersand escapes in URLs or Sherlock is wrong in not understanding them, or I am wrong in not telling Sherlock to interpret them. If anyone has a fix I'd be glad to hear it. The plugins are, of course, auto-updating: if a new one is available you will be told about it when you run sherlock. Maybe we should prod the www.python.org maintainers to make a new search category "documentation only". This would be really handy... -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm

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icon/graphic & shadow-mask
by Bob Savage Jan. 23, 1999

Jan. 23, 1999

Here's a very basic question. I am a little confused as to where to go next. I have slowly been learning how to do programming with Python, and I've reached the point where I am learning Tkinter, because doing things with the language itself (behind the scenes) is starting to make sense. I am also starting to make some sense of the underlying Tkinter paradigm, and I am attempting to write a simple game in Python using Tkinter. But I'm missing something pretty basic: how do I make a graphic with an irregular outline showup properly against an meaningful background? I was going to create a grid of "frame" widgets each with its own background color to represent different "squares" on a "board" with differing types of terrain. I figure this will all work pretty well because I can use a dictionary to access both the "squares" and the visual representations of those squares in a given view of the board. I'm very excited about this because working with the dictionary takes care of a lot of problems I was initially considering (like determining whether a given square would actually be off the boundary of the board). And I *thought* the use of frame for the representation of the square would also help me place the icon for a gamepiece in the right spot. But I'm not sure how to put a graphic in there and still be able to see around it so that it is obvious what kind of terrain it is on. Is this where I switch to learning about the IMG library? Or is there a better place for me to be looking, given that I have been having some success with Tkinter so I would like it to be compatible with Tkinter. thanks for any help, newbie -> Bob <- newbie Bob Savage _________________________________________________________________________ e^mail -> savage(a)2xtreme.net _________________________________________________________________________

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plotting package for MacOS?
by Joseph J. Strout Jan. 22, 1999

Jan. 22, 1999

Any recommendations on a plotting package for MacOS? I'm especially interested in scientific plots, i.e., I want to replace Matlab with NumPy, but I need Matlab's powerful graphing and plotting capabilities. I looked over the list at http://starship.skyport.net/crew/jhauser/plot-res.html but none of them sound too promising. If none is available -- and assuming I can convince my boss to let us stick with Python anyway -- then I'll be writing one. The idea I've been kicking around involves a plot object to which you assign functions to do the low-level drawing (lines, polygons, text, etc.). So the plot engine would be portable; you'd just plug in functions to use your native drawing commands (or not -- maybe you'd plug in postscript drawing commands, or gdmodule (GIF) functions, or whatever). But that's the sort of thing the plot-sig is presumably interested in... is there already such a package in the works? Thanks, -- Joe ,------------------------------------------------------------------. | Joseph J. Strout developer: MacOS, Unix, 3D, AI | | joe(a)strout.net http://www.strout.net | `------------------------------------------------------------------'

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IDE & Debugger & breakpoints
by Just van Rossum Jan. 21, 1999

Jan. 21, 1999

First IDE bug: Setting/clearing debugger breakpoints does not work properly. I'll try to fix it. It's because bdb.py's interface is not backwards compatible. Stupid enough, I did know about it, but forgot :-( Just

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