[wxPython] Is there still an interest in a wxPython book?

Just adding my voice to the multitude! A book would make it a lot easier to convince my co-workers that wxPython is a good choice for a GUI platform.

Here are some issues that I’d like to see addressed that no one has mentioned yet:

A list and comparison of the tools, such as Dialog box designers and debuggers, available for wxPython: wxGlade, wxDesigner, Boa…

Debugging methodology: 1) Redirecting stdout and stderr to an output window, 2) Debuggers. Especially important to mention is the limitation of PythonWin (i.e. it crashing when executing a wxPython app a second time).

How to find answers to undocumented features:

a) search through $wxPython/*.py (this is especially useful to find out if a wxWindows feature is supported by wxPython)

b) search through the wxWindows source

How to make customized widgets written in C++ available to wxPython.

Coming from an MFC background, I found Sizers to be especially confusing.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Wayne Young [mailto:gwyoung@garywayneyoung.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:14 PM
To:
wxpython-users@lists.wxwindows.org
Subject: [wxPython] Is there still an interest in a wxPython book?

Hello Everyone,

I had announced months ago that I was working on a wxPython book and that it would be out this September. Well, my “real job” pushed the schedule out considerably and I am looking at a publish date of April 1, 2003.

I wanted to do a straw poll and insure that there is still substantial interest in a wxPython book before I move forward (my publisher is requiring me to do this :)).

Please respond if you feel it is still needed (this of course is my sentiment), and I would also like feedback on where people’s interests are and what they would like to see in the book. The original manuscript and outline are based on information that is several months old, and I want to insure that everyone gets what they want (if possible of course).

Thanks and I look forward to hearing from all of you.

Gary Young

Thanks. More good ideas from the multitude. :slight_smile:

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----- Original Message -----

From:
Matthew Thornley

To: ‘wxpython-users@lists.wxwindows.org’

Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:41 PM

Subject: RE: [wxPython] Is there still an interest in a wxPython book?

Just adding my voice to the multitude! A book would make it a lot easier to convince my co-workers that wxPython is a good choice for a GUI platform.

Here are some issues that I’d like to see addressed that no one has mentioned yet:

A list and comparison of the tools, such as Dialog box designers and debuggers, available for wxPython: wxGlade, wxDesigner, Boa…

Debugging methodology: 1) Redirecting stdout and stderr to an output window, 2) Debuggers. Especially important to mention is the limitation of PythonWin (i.e. it crashing when executing a wxPython app a second time).

How to find answers to undocumented features:

  a) search through $wxPython/*.py (this is especially useful to find out if a wxWindows feature is supported by wxPython)
  b) search through the wxWindows source

How to make customized widgets written in C++ available to wxPython.

Coming from an MFC background, I found Sizers to be especially confusing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Wayne Young [mailto:gwyoung@garywayneyoung.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:14 PM
To:
wxpython-users@lists.wxwindows.org
Subject: [wxPython] Is there still an interest in a wxPython book?

Hello Everyone,

I had announced months ago that I was working on a wxPython book and that it would be out this September.  Well, my "real job" pushed the schedule out considerably and I am looking at a publish date of April 1, 2003.
I wanted to do a straw poll and insure that there is still substantial interest in a wxPython book before I move forward (my publisher is requiring me to do this :)). 
Please respond if you feel it is still needed (this of course is my sentiment), and I would also like feedback on where people's interests are and what they would like to see in the book.  The original manuscript and outline are based on information that is several months old, and I want to insure that everyone gets what they want (if possible of course).
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from all of you.

Gary Young