Simple Dialogs

[neil.fraser@gmail.com]

I'm looking for a lightweight dialog boxes from Python.
JavaScript uses: alert(), confirm() and prompt()
VB uses: MsgBox() and InputBox()
EasyGui seemed perfect, but a "Hello World" application takes nearly a
minute to execute after the program has been compiled by py2exe.

There appear to be dozens of windowing toolkits avilable for Python,
could someone point me in the direction of something lightweight?

Thanks.

[James Stroud]

Re: Simple Dialogs

py> from tkMessageBox import askquestion, showerror
py> from tkSimpleDialog import askfloa
py> a = askfloat('Censu s Data', 'Enter Salary')
py> print a
12500.51
py> a = askquestion('Op inion', 'Do you think windoze sucks?')
py> print a
yes
py> a = showerror('Prob lem','Program Crashed before Starting')
py> print a
ok

On Friday 23 September 2005 11:33, neil.fraser@gma il.com wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm looking for a lightweight dialog boxes from Python.
> JavaScript uses: alert(), confirm() and prompt()
> VB uses: MsgBox() and InputBox()
> EasyGui seemed perfect, but a "Hello World" application takes nearly a
> minute to execute after the program has been compiled by py2exe.
>
> There appear to be dozens of windowing toolkits avilable for Python,
> could someone point me in the direction of something lightweight?
>
> Thanks.[/color]

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[neil.fraser@gmail.com]

Re: Simple Dialogs

James Stroud wrote:[color=blue]
> from tkMessageBox import showerror
> showerror('Prob lem','Program Crashed before Starting')[/color]

Thanks. That works great when interpreted (though a blank window seems
to open as well). Unfortunately it still takes 40 seconds to execute
after it has been 'compiled' with py2exe (I've only got a P3). This
probably has something to do with the fact that the resulting files for
this two-liner weigh in at just under 8MB.

Sounds like I'll need to write a one-line msgbox.exe in Visual Whatever
or Euphoria and execute that from Python.

[neil.fraser@gmail.com]

Re: Simple Dialogs

James Stroud wrote:[color=blue]
> from tkMessageBox import showerror
> showerror('Prob lem','Program Crashed before Starting')[/color]

Here's a faster method, though not cross-platform:

import ctypes
ctypes.windll.u ser32.MessageBo xA(0, "Hello World", "Title", 0x00)

[Grant Edwards]

Re: Simple Dialogs

On 2005-09-26, neil.fraser@gma il.com <neil.fraser@gm ail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> James Stroud wrote:[color=green]
>> from tkMessageBox import showerror
>> showerror('Prob lem','Program Crashed before Starting')[/color]
>
> Here's a faster method, though not cross-platform:
>
> import ctypes
> ctypes.windll.u ser32.MessageBo xA(0, "Hello World", "Title", 0x00)[/color]

Another easy way to do a dialog box:

import os
os.system('Xdia log --msgbox "Hello World" 0 0')

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[Thorsten Kampe]

Re: Simple Dialogs

* neil.fraser@gma il.com (2005-09-23 23:39 +0100)[color=blue]
> James Stroud wrote:[color=green]
>> from tkMessageBox import showerror
>> showerror('Prob lem','Program Crashed before Starting')[/color]
>
> Thanks. That works great when interpreted (though a blank window seems
> to open as well). Unfortunately it still takes 40 seconds to execute
> after it has been 'compiled' with py2exe (I've only got a P3). This
> probably has something to do with the fact that the resulting files for
> this two-liner weigh in at just under 8MB.[/color]

Try with Pyinstaller. There are issues with py2exe and EasyGui. I have
a script that uses either EasyGui or EasyDialog (on Windows) and the
Tkinter part crashes constantly (newest py2exe) while EasyDialogs
works just fine.

Compiled with Pyinstaller they both work fine (and the exe is at 1.7
MB)

[Steve Holden]

Re: Simple Dialogs

Grant Edwards wrote:[color=blue]
> On 2005-09-26, neil.fraser@gma il.com <neil.fraser@gm ail.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>James Stroud wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>>from tkMessageBox import showerror
>>>showerror('P roblem','Progra m Crashed before Starting')[/color]
>>
>>Here's a faster method, though not cross-platform:
>>
>>import ctypes
>>ctypes.windll .user32.Message BoxA(0, "Hello World", "Title", 0x00)[/color]
>
>
> Another easy way to do a dialog box:
>
> import os
> os.system('Xdia log --msgbox "Hello World" 0 0')
>[/color]

Doesn't seem to work on my Winodws system at all ;-)

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[Grant Edwards]

Re: Simple Dialogs

On 2005-09-26, Steve Holden <steve@holdenwe b.com> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>>from tkMessageBox import showerror
>>>>showerror(' Problem','Progr am Crashed before Starting')
>>>
>>>Here's a faster method, though not cross-platform:
>>>
>>>import ctypes
>>>ctypes.windl l.user32.Messag eBoxA(0, "Hello World", "Title", 0x00)[/color]
>>
>> Another easy way to do a dialog box:
>>
>> import os
>> os.system('Xdia log --msgbox "Hello World" 0 0')[/color]
>
> Doesn't seem to work on my Winodws system at all ;-)[/color]

Odd. You don't have a full compliment of the usual GTK apps
installed?

I probably should have mentioned that Xdialog is a GTK+ app and
it needs to be installed and working on your platform.

In thoery, you could get it to work under Windows, but the last
time I checked, the Windows port of GTK+ was still a bit "beta".

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[William Park]

Re: Simple Dialogs

neil.fraser@gma il.com wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm looking for a lightweight dialog boxes from Python.
> JavaScript uses: alert(), confirm() and prompt()
> VB uses: MsgBox() and InputBox()
> EasyGui seemed perfect, but a "Hello World" application takes nearly a
> minute to execute after the program has been compiled by py2exe.
>
> There appear to be dozens of windowing toolkits avilable for Python,
> could someone point me in the direction of something lightweight?[/color]

If you can run it outside Python, then

http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#gtk

will get you started.

If you must run it inside Python, then you should look into Python
wrapper for GTK+, and write the code yourself.

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