solentware-misc 1.3

Classes perhaps useful beyond original application

Contents

• Description

• Installation Instructions

• Notes

Description

This package contains a number of modules which do not have an obvious home in an existing sibling package, or have been kept separate deliberately.

Main package (solentware_misc).

workarounds subpackage.

• dialogues.py - wrappers for messagebox and filedialog functions.

• workarounds.py - workarounds for problems met in Tkinter functions.

api subpackage.

• callthreadqueue.py - run methods from a queue in a thread.

• indexmap.py - DPT style bitmap manager.

• modulequery.py - functions to pick an installed database interface.

• null.py - Null object from Python Cookbook.

• utilities.py - Some name and date methods.

gui subpackage.

• colourslider.py - widget for choosing colours.

• exceptionhandler.py - write exception details to error log.

• fontchooser.py - widget for selecting fonts.

• frame.py - customised Tkinter.Frame widget for notebook style GUI.

• gridbindings.py - common bindings for solentware-grid grid widget.

• help.py - create widgets to display help files.

• logpanel.py - widgets for displaying task logs.

• panel.py - customised Tkinter.Frame widget for notebook style GUI.

• reports.py - customised Tkinter.Toplevel for reports and dialogues.

• tasklog.py - run task in thread and report progress.

• textentry.py - customised Tkinter.Text widget.

• textreadonly.py - customised Tkinter.Text widget.

• texttab.py - customised Tkinter.Text widget.

• threadqueue.py - add api.callthreadqueue to gui.frame.

Installation Instructions

Install the package by typing

python setup.py install

at the command prompt with setup.py in the current directory.

You may need to give the path and version of Python depending on your system’s configuration:

<path to python>/python<version> setup.py install

For example

C:\Python33\python setup.py install

on Microsoft Windows or

python3.3 setup.py install

on Unix-like systems.

Use Python 3.3 or later.

Notes

The frame, panel, logpanel,and threadqueue, modules are obsolete given the addition of ttk:notebook to tk after Tk8.4 and access via tkinter.