Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 46 Views: 3,172 I taught computer science at a junior college for many years. One day 20 or more years ago, I guess, I was surprised to hear two-part harmony coming out of the computer room. One of the geekier... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Sep 27th, 2009 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 386 In one of my MS Word documents I want to change the simplified Chinese font (Simsun) for one that's more readable at small point sizes. Now I have to figure out which of my hundreds of fonts supports... |
Forum: Python Aug 27th, 2009 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 261 Dear wizards, here are two easy wxpython questions. Thanks in advance for your help!
1. How do I get wxpython to activate a button when user presses "Enter"? In the baby application below,... |
Forum: Python Jun 29th, 2009 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 262 This is a cute combinatorial problem. A set of integers >0 that adds up to an integer A >= 0 is called a partition of A. You want to generate all partitions of A into N distinct parts. Call this... |
Forum: Python Jun 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 758 paulthom, thanks for your note. I learned most of the little I know about wxpython from your very practical tutorials on www.wxpython.webs.com/. The down-home language is entertaining and explicit. I... |
Forum: Python Jun 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 758 Sneekula, thanks for your help. I feel like my WxPython expertise has gone up from level 0 to at least 0.1. And I am reading the very clear GUI tutorials on this site, thanks for these too. |
Forum: Python Jun 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 758 Excuse me! I'm really not clever yet with GUI programming, my apologies! I just realized that the behavior I want from the Enter key has nothing to do with the textbox display, which after all is... |
Forum: Python Jun 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 758 Sneekula, thanks for your reply! From your comments I conclude that a modal dialog is too limited for the kind of display I want. Here's a second try at displaying all lines of a file sequentially,... |
Forum: Python Jun 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 387 How about this: RoundedN = 10*int(round(N/10.0)), where N can be integer or floating |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 27th, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 418 Well, there are plenty of people interested in all those things, right?! So it depends what YOU are interested in. Do this if you're interested in electrical engineering and circuit design. You'll... |
Forum: Community Introductions Jun 27th, 2009 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 201 After teaching comp sci and math for almost 30 years in Montreal, Canada, I retired 5 years ago, took a lot of linguistics courses, became interested in Japanese, then Chinese, and finally got my ESL... |
Forum: Python Jun 27th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 758 I'm trying to learn wxPython. Unfortunately when I came to China in Jan I had to leave the nice wxPython book in Canada because it was too heavy for my suitcase. So I humbly ask you to bear with my... |