So you think PythonCard is old? Here's new wine in an old bottle.

[John Henry]

On Apr 29, 1:57 am, Panyasan <c.boulan... at qxtransformer.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am one of the two developers working on the xml-to-javascript
> converter (qxtransformer) John has mentioned and we are thrilled that
> our project has found a use in the PythonCard community.
>
> However, we have a problem getting PythonCard to work on our Macs (Mac
> OS 10.5 Leopard). We should probably be asking this on the PythonCard
> help list, but since the list seems to be somewhat deserted (very few
> posts) and John is active here and people seem to be using PythonCard,
> maybe someone has an idea. It might be very simple and stupid - I have
> never worked with python before.
>
> I am using
> - PythonCard 0.8.2 release on Leopard, which is copied by setup.py to /
> Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
> - John's layoutEditor package, (http://qxtransformer.googlegroups.com/
> web/layoutEditor.zip)
>
> PythonCard email list says that Leopard and PythonCard 0.8.2 seem to
> like each other generally:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=EE5213D5-A00...
>
> and I can get the examples working. However, when I start John's
> modified layoutEditor.py, I get an empty window and the following
> error is thrown:
>
> no resource file for /Users/bibliograph/Programme/PythonCard/tools/
> layoutEditor/multipropertyEditor
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/BinaryCache/wxWidgets/wxWidgets-11~57/Root/System/Library/
> Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/wx-2.8-mac-
> unicode/wx/_core.py", line 14095, in <lambda>
>   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PythonCard/tools/
> layoutEditor/layoutEditor.py", line 153, in on_initialize
>     self.propertyEditorWindow = model.childWindow(self,
> PropertyEditor)
>   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PythonCard/model.py", line
> 213, in childWindow
>     rsrc = resource.ResourceFile(filename).getResource()
>   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PythonCard/resource.py",
> line 45, in __init__
>     self.dictionary = util.readAndEvalFile(rsrcFileName)
>   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PythonCard/util.py", line
> 39, in readAndEvalFile
>     f = open(filename)
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found
>
> there is a file PythonCard/tools/layoutEditor/modules/
> multipropertyEditor.rsrc.py
>
> When I resize the window, I get the following errors
>
> Tue Apr 29 10:48:08 noname Python[40440] <Error>: CGContextConcatCTM:
> invalid context
> Tue Apr 29 10:48:08 noname Python[40440] <Error>: CGContextSaveGState:
> invalid context
> Tue Apr 29 10:48:08 noname Python[40440] <Error>: doClip: invalid
> context
> Tue Apr 29 10:48:08 noname Python[40440] <Error>: CGContextSaveGState:
> invalid context
> Tue Apr 29 10:48:08 noname Python[40440] <Error>:
> CGContextSetBlendMode: invalid context
> Tue Apr 29 10:48:08 noname Python[40440] <Error>:
> CGContextSetShouldAntialias: invalid context
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PythonCard/model.py", line
> 884, in _dispatch
>     handler(background, aWxEvent)
>   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PythonCard/tools/
> layoutEditor/layoutEditor.py", line 560, in on_size
>     self.createDC()
>   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PythonCard/tools/
> layoutEditor/layoutEditor.py", line 556, in createDC
>     dc.SetLogicalFunction(wx.INVERT)
>   File "/BinaryCache/wxWidgets/wxWidgets-11~57/Root/System/Library/
> Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/wx-2.8-mac-
> unicode/wx/_gdi.py", line 4079, in SetLogicalFunction
> wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "status == noErr" failed
> at ../src/mac/carbon/graphics.cpp(1324) in EnsureIsValid(): Cannot
> nest wxDCs on the same window
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Christian

Christian,

It appears you're missing a file.  Where did you placed my program?  I
see that there are two places being mentioned:

> no resource file for /Users/bibliograph/Programme/PythonCard/tools/
> layoutEditor/multipropertyEditor

and

> File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PythonCard/tools/
> layoutEditor/layoutEditor.py", line 556, in createDC