I just want to say a big thank you to Robin for this new facility, that you add as a wx.App mixin and which, with one or two simple method calls, you can automatically download and install updates to the app you have built and distributed using py2exe, py2app or similar. It uses the Esky package (whose author has got to be Australian!) available in PyPi.
For me it was perfectly timed as I was just thinking how I could accomplish this. However my own efforts have been more along the lines of an old farm jalopy rather than this smooth limo.
For usage details, see superdoodle.py in the samples folder of wxPython2.9 Docs & Demos - which also uses the InspectionMixin, that allows the WIT (Widget Inspection Tool) to be popped up via a hot-key for the widget currently under the mouse. Brilliant! (and I mean that in its true sense, not as in the response you get for providing your date of birth correctly to a call centre 'security' question)
Thanks. Esky definitely came along at the right time for me too. A client asked me to do something like that and I did a search to see if there was something for another toolkit that I could get ideas from and Esky turned up and already solved most of the problems that I was dreading having to tackle myself. I only had to add the GUI elements and the mixin code to integrate it with wx.App. The author (he is Australian, at least his email address is) was also helpful and applied my patches and came up with bug fixes quickly.
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On 9/13/11 8:37 AM, David Hughes wrote:
I just want to say a big thank you to Robin for this new facility, that
you add as a wx.App mixin and which, with one or two simple method
calls, you can automatically download and install updates to the app you
have built and distributed using py2exe, py2app or similar. It uses the
Esky package (whose author has got to be Australian!) available in PyPi.
For me it was perfectly timed as I was just thinking how I could
accomplish this. However my own efforts have been more along the lines
of an old farm jalopy rather than this smooth limo.
For usage details, see superdoodle.py in the samples folder of
wxPython2.9 Docs & Demos - which also uses the InspectionMixin, that
allows the WIT (Widget Inspection Tool) to be popped up via a hot-key
for the widget currently under the mouse. Brilliant! (and I mean that in
its true sense, not as in the response you get for providing your date
of birth correctly to a call centre 'security' question)