Re: [Tutor] in-memory pysqlite databases

2008-04-13 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
Am Sonntag, den 13.04.2008, 23:31 +0100 schrieb Alan Gauld: > "Dinesh B Vadhia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > Your last paragraph is the gist of my note ie. it's the > > documentation, documentation, documentation. > > I agree it can be very variable in quality. > One of the problems of Open

Re: [Tutor] Ball in Box

2008-04-13 Thread Kent Johnson
brebreman3 wrote: > I have drawn the circles by the circ.draw and i have defined the radius of > the circle. I do know how to also get them to move just I don't know how to > do friction and get them to only bounce inside of the pool table that was > created. Can you show us some code? You will

Re: [Tutor] in-memory pysqlite databases

2008-04-13 Thread bob gailer
Alan Gauld wrote: [snip] > (*)And of course that's a gamble too because there are > many badly documented commercial libraries too! > How true. > But at least you can complain to somebody! Oh yeah? Try complaining to MS! They built a wall to protect themselves from their customers. --

Re: [Tutor] Ball in Box

2008-04-13 Thread brebreman3
I have drawn the circles by the circ.draw and i have defined the radius of the circle. I do know how to also get them to move just I don't know how to do friction and get them to only bounce inside of the pool table that was created. Kent Johnson wrote: > > brebreman3 wrote: >> I don't have a c

Re: [Tutor] in-memory pysqlite databases

2008-04-13 Thread Alan Gauld
"Dinesh B Vadhia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Your last paragraph is the gist of my note ie. it's the > documentation, documentation, documentation. I agree it can be very variable in quality. One of the problems of Open Source is that there are more people who want to write code than there ar

Re: [Tutor] in-memory pysqlite databases

2008-04-13 Thread Dinesh B Vadhia
Alan Your last paragraph is the gist of my note ie. it's the documentation, documentation, documentation. In addition to Python, we use Numpy/Scipy/webpy at the server - all of them Python libraries written in Python and/or C - and have faced no end of problems with these libraries. We also u

Re: [Tutor] Ball in Box

2008-04-13 Thread Alan Gauld
"brebreman3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I have a program i am trying to create where the user clicks inside > of a red > parameter inside of the window. The user has an unlimited amount of > clicks > in order to create their own pool table. I would like for the ball > to > bounce inside of

Re: [Tutor] in-memory pysqlite databases

2008-04-13 Thread Alan Gauld
"Dinesh B Vadhia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Why do you say: "Now you didn't mention webpy before, > that makes a big difference!" ? Because any time you change the operating environment different rules apply. That's not a Python thing that's true of all programming languages. If you operate

Re: [Tutor] in-memory pysqlite databases

2008-04-13 Thread Kent Johnson
Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: > And, from my > experience with Python so far it is not of my incompetance (well, not > most of the time!). Hmm. You are very much a beginner. Perhaps you will learn not to be so quick to blame your tools. When you have trouble, you would do well to ask, "What is it tha

Re: [Tutor] Ball in Box

2008-04-13 Thread Kent Johnson
brebreman3 wrote: > I don't have a clue how to get the ball to bounce inside of the > pool table and for the pocket to be created inside the pool table. How are you representing the balls? Do you know how to get them to move? What are you using to draw them? Kent

Re: [Tutor] hey, a bit of a noob at python ut a question about animation...

2008-04-13 Thread Kent Johnson
John Jojo wrote: > I am trying to make a simple animation, and this is what I have. > > from livewires import games, color Please say which version of livewires you are using, the one from the livewires site is different from the one that comes with Dawson's book. > games.init(screen_width = 1

[Tutor] Ball in Box

2008-04-13 Thread brebreman3
I have a program i am trying to create where the user clicks inside of a red parameter inside of the window. The user has an unlimited amount of clicks in order to create their own pool table. I would like for the ball to bounce inside of the pool table they just created and for it to fall insid

Re: [Tutor] in-memory pysqlite databases

2008-04-13 Thread Dinesh B Vadhia
Why do you say: "Now you didn't mention webpy before, that makes a big difference!" ? As an aside, it really is a huge pain in the neck that, in general standard Python works (and works wonderfully) but as soon as you include external libraries (eg. Numpy, Scipy, webpy - and probably other we