Hi Terry - I am an alumni of UCSC (University of California, Santa Cruz) and
live really close so I can request books throughout the UC system just like
you describe and there is no limit - or maybe an extremely high limit - to
the number of books I can check out from McHenry Library. It is so worth
paying alumni dues! There is no way they would transport books to the
public library to make it easier for people though - not with the way the
city and the university feel about each other :}
And discounts on courses through the University Extension program. That is
how I found out about - and took - the online Python for Programmers course.
Though I wasn't really happy with it and went on to listen to the Google
website video - that guy was very clear and helpful I forgot his name. And
then I went through Alan Gauld's tutorial which also helped.
By coincidence I am still working on my own function where I want to display
a picture and some text and have a timer so that it stays on screen for a
specific amount of time and then I go on to close that out and redraw the
screen. I am working with the Tkinter documentation and trying to
understand. I tried a couple tests just adding a few lines to my own
program that didn't accomplish exactly what I want, so planning to type in
very simple examples from the doc, observe that and then go back to my own
code.
If I just can't figure out how to do this with Tkinter and the Python
Imaging Library, is 'wxPython' the additional software I would want to
install and try with? Is its purpose to make GUI event programming easier
(that would mean the defaults provided are difficult, right? So I shouldn't
feel bad about being confused?) If so, can someone explain these additional
software packages out there? I mean are they coming from some third
companies? And why? If the software is free. I'm not understanding the
history or business part of these Python modules and libraries. Isn't there
one organization who is discussing or approving standards for this language?
Regards,
Patty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Carroll" <carr...@tjc.com>
To: <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] program hangs in while loop using wx.yield
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Alex Hall wrote:
Is there a basic tutorial for this sort of thing?
Chapter 3 ("Working in an event-driven environment") of the book "wxPython
in Action" is a pretty good tutorial on event-driven GUI programming in
wxPython. The book in general is pretty good; I no longer buy many
computer books, but this one was worth it.
If you don't want to buy it, if you're in the U.S., you can go to
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67122432 and plug in your zip code to see if
a library near you[1] has it.
[1] or a library that has inter-library loan arrangements with a library
near you. I'm currently reading "Essential SQLAlchemy," courtesy of the
San Diego State University library. My local library (San Jose Public
Library) borrowed it from SDSU and then lent it to me. It's kind of cool
that one library will send a book 400 miles to another, just because I'm
too cheap to buy a copy and asked for it.
Apologies to anyone at SDSU who's learning SQLAlchemy and wondering why
they can't find this book in their library.
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