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Happy Xmas and NewYear for every body.
Maybe someone can find the time to create a nice wxMas widget,
Andrea perhaps ?

cheers,
Stef

Stefano Bartaletti wrote:

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Happy Xmas to everyone subscribed to this list.. and a happy wxNewYear(wx.ID_ANY, locale.LC_ALL) :wink:

See you in 2008

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hi Kevin,

Kevin Ollivier wrote:

Hi Stef,

Happy Xmas and NewYear for every body.
Maybe someone can find the time to create a nice wxMas widget,
Andrea perhaps ?

Creating a new control isn't the only way to give a nice wxMas present. :slight_smile: How about adding some more unit tests to our testing framework?

what's "our testing framework",
you mean the wxPython demo ?

cheers,
Stef

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On Dec 21, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Stef Mientki wrote:
That's a gift that keeps on giving build after build! :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Kevin

cheers,
Stef

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Hi Stef,

hi Kevin,

Kevin Ollivier wrote:

Hi Stef,

Happy Xmas and NewYear for every body.
Maybe someone can find the time to create a nice wxMas widget,
Andrea perhaps ?

Creating a new control isn't the only way to give a nice wxMas present. :slight_smile: How about adding some more unit tests to our testing framework?

what's "our testing framework",
you mean the wxPython demo ?

No, this is an automated testing framework using PyUnit (aka the unittest module). Basically we can run the test framework to make sure regressions don't happen. (i.e. that APIs work as described and don't break after code changes)

The test modules are here: http://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx/wxPython/branches/WX_2_8_BRANCH/tests/

If you check that out, then run runUnitTests.py, it will run all those unit tests and report any errors. A file like testSlider.py is an easy one to look through for how to write and setup tests. We're working on automating it so it runs whenever Robin does a build and reports the errors to wx-dev.

Regards,

Kevin

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On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Stef Mientki wrote:

On Dec 21, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Stef Mientki wrote:

cheers,
Stef

That's a gift that keeps on giving build after build! :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Kevin

cheers,
Stef

Stefano Bartaletti wrote:

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hi Kevin,

orry, I'm no programmer, this is far beyond my capabilities, I'm just a simple user.
And as a user I need things that are not yet there,
so I can only offer to use, extend, maybe create widgets :wink:

I was not asking you in particular,

Oh than its' perfectly ok with me :wink:

just making a general suggestion in case someone wanted to give a little gift to the project. :slight_smile:

I do want to ask though, why do you think it is beyond your ability?

Ok I admit it's a bad excuse,
so let's be honest,
I just don't like testing,
I want to make big steps in front, instead of standing still.
e.g. Instead of writing test code,
I'm much more interested in writing the code for a real autocompletion of STC,
not the one that is the wxPython demo (although yoy did a really great job Robin !!)
And if you're doomed to work with Windows, you must accept bugs :wink:

Anyone who can write wxPython code should have all the skills needed to write tests, and all programmers should learn how to write automated tests, IMHO. It allows you to write widgets and programs much faster, and really decreases the amount of time you spend debugging. After all, the entire purpose of computers is to automate tedious tasks, so why not automate as much of the development cycle as possible? :slight_smile:

Yes and No,
I agree that we should automate much more,
but by now (after the computer exists for about 50 years,
I would think the computer should be able to understand our human language :wink:
So I don't agree that we still should be occupied with syntax but much more with semantics (of the knowledge domain).
That's why I have written already FSM (Finite State Machine) programs,
to generate code for several "languages" (Delphi, JAL, hardware),
that's also why I'm now working on "Pylab_Works".
And it's very interesting to see the different attitude of users and programmers for these kind of programs :wink:
The (end-)user finds them very welcome, while the programmer sees it as a threat to his job.
Did the introduction of the computer reduce the amount of paper used :wink:

So that's why I think we should more concentrate on the outside user-interface,
develop new user-interface technics (ever tried Dasher, Mindmappers ),
than on the inside of the programs.

Let me finish with a large/big/? thanks to this group,
without the help of this group I would never been able to create a program like PyLab_Works.

cheers,
Stef

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Happy X’mas and new year from Beijing, China!

A thief broke into my house and my visa is rejected for I’m in a third world country…what a day…

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2007/12/23, Giuseppe Costanzi < g.costanzi@idi.it>:

Kevin Ollivier ha scritto:

Hi Stef,

On Dec 21, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Stef Mientki wrote:

Happy Xmas and NewYear for every body.
Maybe someone can find the time to create a nice wxMas widget,

Andrea perhaps ?

Creating a new control isn’t the only way to give a nice wxMas
present. :slight_smile: How about adding some more unit tests to our testing
framework? That’s a gift that keeps on giving build after build! :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Kevin

cheers,
Stef

Stefano Bartaletti wrote:

Happy Xmas to everyone subscribed to this list… and a happy

wxNewYear(wx.ID_ANY, locale.LC_ALL) :wink:

See you in 2008

Happy Xmas and New Year from Rome Italy!!!:wink:
Giuseppe

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