[Edu-sig] New graphics library (beta version)

[John Zelle]

Thanks to those of you who tried this out. I managed to get another day 
to work on it, and I'm satisfied that what I have now is a major 
improvement from the previous (non-threaded) version. I've tested it 
fairly thoroughly under Linux (I do have a test suite, but a lot of the 
checks have to be visual) and have had good reports from others under 
Windows. I've decided to go ahead and release it. We'll definitely be 
using it here this winter term.

The newest version improves on the beta version I sent out earlier by 
adding some important error checking. This version should not leave any 
hanging threads. Anyone who wants to update to the newest version can 
find it on my Python page:

http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python

I've also updated the documentation there to match the newest version.

--John


Kirby Urner wrote:

>>Please give this a try if you're interested. Any and all feedback is
>>welcome.
>>
>>--John
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>
>I forget if there's a test suite of programs, or something else you run to
>decide whether it's ready for prime time.  I've got some graphics.py
>dependents around, e.g. that cellular automata stuff we did awhile back,
>plus other stuff I worked on with Bernie.  
>
>I've stashed your code in my Python24 site-packages on WinXP.  Compaq
>(Linux) has showed signs of trouble ever since the Ubuntu fiasco.  Then
>there's TMU running Mandrake 10.1 -- haven't fired up Samba on that one yet
>to make it part of my network neighborhood.
>
>Kirby
>
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