Hi Gary and All
>
> > Have you seen the ticker in the demo? Sounds like that might do it for
> > scrolling text. It uses a textCtrl. You can just read a text file in the
> > normal Python way, and set what text you want as the value of the textCtrl,
> > and use that textCtrl in the ticker.
>
>
> I think I saw that, "textCtrl," but nothing about ticker.
> I'm not clear on how to use the wxPython pages, so yes, I
> may be jumping the gun here. I typed "text" into the search
> area; then "file", then "file, read".You sound like you haven't downloaded and installed the wxpython package yet.
Inside the wxpython package is an extensive set of demos, including a
GUI file picker. Once you have picked a file, you can use python to
read the contents in, and then use a TextCtrl (careful about the
capitalization - it can be significant) to display it as you wish.
Take a look at the "Ticker" demo in the "More Windows/Controls"
section of the Demo.You can get the wxpython package for your OS of choice here:
Redirecting...
Note that you want a version of wxpython that matches your installed
version of python.
Well, I found the demo files for my OS and modified TextCtrl.py
yesterday. For my next trick:: to open a file and print into
one of the two text-areas I have left.
I also found the font-selection code that will let the user
select his font-of-choice. Sooooo, pretty soon I'll be able to
drop in my non-GUI functions.
Got to say that this looks like the best new language I've
studied! Cool++ 
gary
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On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:40:36PM -0500, D. Scott Katzer wrote:
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
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