wxPython / Your Experiences in large project ???

[Harald Schneider]

Hi Cliff,

thanks for your answer! On what kind of clients do you run this software?
My customer has an mixed Win2K, Win98-environment. Especially the Win98
machines might cause stability probs when running wxPython. Do you have any
experiences in this direction ?

All the best,
Harald

"Cliff Wells" <logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:mailman.1018291584.15367.python-list at python.org...
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:55:24 +0200
> Harald Schneider wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > what are your experiences, using wxPython/wxWindows in large projects?
> >
> > Large means in my case a sales system, based on MySQL.
> > I'm thinking about implementing it in wxPython, but I'm not sure about
the
> > stability of
> > wxWindows and the wxPython wrapper ...
>
> While working as a developer at a call center (telephone sales and
surveys) I
> developed a system using Python, wxPython and MySQL.  I did encounter the
> occasional problem when upgrading wxPython versions, but nothing that
wasn't
> readily fixed.  It was a moderately complex system, having a custom markup
> language for prompting the telemarketer (so different sales regions could
use a
> different "script" without code changes) that was parsed and passed
through as
> HTML to the wxPython HTML widget.  Besides the database access, the
software
> also had to control an autodialer via telnet and have a fallback dialing
system
> in case the autodialer failed.  The system ran on 90 seats, 16 hours a
day, 7
> days a week for over two years. It was fast, stable, and any of the
problems we
> had could be usually be directly attributed to me =)
>
> Also, if you have doubts about whether the lack of a standard/stable/* IDE
for
> wxPython is a problem, consider that this system went live less than 30
days
> after the initial spec. There was only one developer (me) using only
XEmacs
> (although the first couple of days in production were a special sort of
hell ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
> Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
> (503) 978-6726 x308  (800) 735-0555 x308
>
>