[Pythonmac-SIG] Where to go for wxPython help & tutorials?

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Chris,

On Jun 16, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Chris Barker wrote:

[snip]

>
> The reference manual is your best bet, though it's not indexed.  
> What I do is grep all the html files, and usually find what I want.
>
> One of the tricks is that as an OO library, most of the methods  
> available for a widget are inherited from superclasses, and thus  
> not documented as part of that class. The new Python-spcific docs  
> are better in this regard, but I find them a little harder to  
> navigate.
>
> http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/

I just wanted to add that Vaclav Slavik has written a program called  
Documancer that lets you index, search, and make bookmarks for  
several different documentation formats, and has some nice touches  
like providing highlighted search results. It even has HTML and Web  
"providers" so that you can index and search any arbitrary HTML  
content, even if it's online. It also can index your man and info  
files along with DevHelp files. (CHM support is in development, too.)  
IMHO, it's a very useful tool for developers or anyone who wants to  
organize various references and online documentation sources. You can  
get it from:

http://documancer.sourceforge.net/

I've been working on the Mac port. There's no OS X app bundle yet,  
but so long as you have the latest wxPython (2.6.1.0) and PyLucene  
0.9.3, the Documancer 0.2.6 source release runs fine on Mac, using  
the WebKit browser for rendering.

I hope to have an app bundle later this week or early next week in  
order to make installing this a truly painless process. :-)

Thanks,

Kevin