[Edu-sig] graphics on mac

[Atul Varma]

Oh, sorry I didn't link to it in my first post; here's the link to pyglet:

  http://www.pyglet.org/

- Atul

On Jan 18, 2008 9:35 AM, Atul Varma <varmaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you looked at pyglet?  I'm not sure if it works with Python 2.3,
> but I saw a demonstration of it at a Chicago Python User Group meeting
> a few months ago and it appeared to both have very few dependencies as
> well as a clean and straightforward API.
>
> I have done Cocoa graphics programming using Python via PyObjC, and
> while it's not particularly hard, it is a bit ugly-looking simply due
> to the syntax used when sending messages to Objective-C objects.  If
> you like, though, I can send you some basic code to get you started.
>
> Also, is your school planning on upgrading to Leopard at any point?
> One big advantage of it is that it comes with Python 2.5 and a number
> of nice Mac-specific modules built-in (such as PyObjC).
>
> - Atul
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2008 9:16 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Note that I probably can't download anything that is not already installed
> > > on the Macs, because these are in the school computer lab, and I am a parent
> > > volunteer with no admin privileges.
> > > Thanks!
> > > Felicia
> > >
> > > Felicia B. Gershberg, M.A.T., Ph.D., m.o.m.
> >
> > Not a Mac expert here (far from it), but just wanted to comment how
> > many schools I've encountered where the approach is to deliberately
> > dumb down the expensive capabilities of their systems, as a substitute
> > for paying a real sysop to do it right.
> >
> > One of my gigs awhile back was for a local police department that,
> > to its credit, noticed it was mainly scaring kids about cyberspace,
> > whereas this was also likely their future i.e. if this were no fun, what
> > was to keep 'em from giving up and joining gangs?
> >
> > So how do the pros do it, i.e. show 'em the ropes, make 'em feel
> > at home, as if this were all theirs to inherit someday.
> >
> > In their worst nightmares, we'd be teaching 'em how to packet sniff
> > with Ethereal in like the first lesson, explaining about Squid, firewalls,
> > routers, all the rest of it -- which is exactly what we did.  But George
> > was way cool about it (exFBI).  We let him sit in.
> >
> > But that's not how it works in your normal school, with teachers
> > paralyzed with fear (Python!  egads!), and never doing anything much
> > about it as the years fly by, another batch of know-nothings graduated.
> >
> > Oh well, too bad for them.  Not my problem.
> >
> > Kirby
> >
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