<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:55 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lfseeney@comcast.net">lfseeney@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>Just started looking at Python, I have not programmed in a good 8-10 years now, and find myself woefully behind.</div></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Luckily it shouldn't take you too much time with python - it's a lot easier to learn/relearn than a lot of other languages!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div></div><div>I was wondering if there was a Preset Menu and file system module for Python so I would not have to look at setting it all up?</div></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The short answer: yes</div><div><br></div><div>But that leaves out a lot of details :)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>Trying to start again, Car wreck took me out for the last 10 years, and my memoery is lacking so I forget how things worked and now relearning things.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well if you get stuck, we're glad to help around here :) Especially if you follow the "asking good questions" guidelines you get in response to your first email.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>Was never a true programmer mostly a trouble shooter for HW and SW development so I can scan and read code fair enough but was not the one writing code.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Honestly you probably got a decent amount of experience that way - I think it may be more difficult reading someone else's code than reading your own!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>So basically (pardon the pun), is there a good reference online for using the libariers to give me a simple Interface with pull downs and such, file system and so?</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are *lots* of good online python references - including some written by the folks around here.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>Last time I did any real coding had to write that myself, of course that was before many on the list was born I would guess.</div><div><br></div><div>
So I need a site that can handhold be a bit til whats left in the little gray cells can start working.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Issue that brings this up is I want to put together a program to help Miniature Wargame Players run mid to long campaign games, with all the wargames out there one would think there would be more than a few of these about, but there are very few and the better one still works like a DOS program.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am trying to put together a simple, expandable system that will folks to track and write reports for each turn of the game.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At first I was a little confused by what you wanted to do, but after reading this it seems like you want a GUI? If so, Tkinter is probably the right choice - I find it a lot simpler than most GUI libraries, but powerful enough to handle what you need/want it to. Tkinter (indeed most python scripts/GUIs) has the added benefit of being cross platform. If you write something that works in windows, it probably works under another platform (mac, *nix), as long as python is installed.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>My personal recommendation would be to check out some of the regular programming tutorials available - several written by some of the top contributers here (in terms of activity, experience, and intelligence). After you're refreshed as to some general programming concepts and syntax, then it's a bit easier to pick up some of the GUIs. In reality, most people have their favourite GUI, whether it be Tkinter, PyGTK+ (mine, but mainly because I've found it has a bit more advanced drawing methods - I always wanted to write up a sketchbook type program. Then I found mypaint, written in PyGTK+ with a little bit of C that turns out to be perfect for my desires), Qt, or any one of a number of others.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Most of those who are pretty familiar with their GUI of choice could probably toss up a few features of the kind of thing you seem to be describing (menus, forms) with very little trouble.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Python has lots of built-in file system operations/modules. You can easily read/write a file from within python with no imports, although with what you seem to want to do you might look at the pickle library (enables writing then reading objects directly from a file, as opposed to just attributes), configparser (which does pretty much what it sounds like - parses config formatted files), or what might be the best option if you're planning to support lots of campaign info - sqlite. Of course there are probably a few people with other ideas and suggestions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, HTH,</div><div>Wayne</div></div>