wxPython (Posts about Software)

New Horizons

Robin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:12:00 GMT

For the past few months I have been working for Enthought and helping out with a new upcoming product. Since that is about to transition to a more long term employment opportunity for me I figured it would be a good idea to let the wxPython community know about it, and also to let you know about some aspects of the job that some may find a little surprising, before you hear about it as rumors or gossip.

OS X Lion Was My Idea

Robin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:35:00 GMT

Several months ago Microsoft had an ad campaign where they would have an average Joe or Jane talk about some cool wizbang feature of Windows 7 and how it was all their idea. It was one of Microsoft's better ad campaigns, and was actually understandable by the average person without requiring the viewer to know industry inside jokes, or to understand Jerry Seinfeld, to be able to "get" the gist of the commercial. It also employed some cute gimmicks, such as when the person was remembering back to how they thought up the wonderful new idea the directors used a different actor who was younger, thinner, cuter, handsomer, and had way better hair than the real person.

wxPython 2.8.12.0 released

Robin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:33:00 GMT

This is pretty much a bug-fix only release, although some of the 3rd party modules in wx.lib have also been updated and include some new features. You can download it from the wxPython download page. As always you should join the wxPython-users group hosted at GoogleGroups for questions, support, comments, or just for the sake of being part of an awesome community.

Project Phoenix

Robin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:07:00 GMT

For a couple years now myself and a few others have been hinting that a totally new way to develop wxPython is possible and is just over the horizon. I'm happy to announce that the project is finally moving beyond the pie-in-the-sky stage and that development of the tools has begun. More details are available in the wxPython wiki, and you can join the discussion about the project in the wxPython-dev mail list.

wxPython 2.9.1.1

Robin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:06:00 GMT

The 2.9.1.1 release of wxPython is now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. This is the first official release in the 2.9 development release series. There are lots and lots of new widgets and other awesome stuff that have been added since the 2.8 series, with more to come in future releases. A list of changes can be seen at http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php. Also new with this release is a build for Mac OSX and Python 2.7 that uses the Cocoa API and supports the 64-bit architecture on OSX 10.5 and 10.6.

Various binaries are available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and also for OSX using the Carbon and Cocoa APIs, for Python 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7. And source code is also available at http://wxpython.org/download.php of course, for building your own.

Whyteboard gets noticed

Robin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:03:00 GMT

Whyteboard, a useful application written using wxPython for the GUI, was just noticed over at SourceForge. Congrats Sproaty!

Commit Count? Big Deal

Robin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:38:00 GMT

This announcement from the PLplot project, and this report about it from Slashdot tout the ten thousandth commit to PLplot's source repository. My response? "Big deal!" Both the Python and wxWidgets projects are about the same age as PLplot and the wx repository currently has almost 61,000 commits, and the Python repository has over 73,000 commits. While those numbers are impressive considering that they represent mostly volunteer unpaid time from dozens of developers, they still pale compared to other projects.

On the other hand, the number of commits is really a very poor metric to measure open source projects by. Much more impressive is the number of users who would rather be using the software than anything else that could compete with it.

wxPython 2.8.9.2 Released

Robin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:13:00 GMT

wxPython 2.8.9.2 has just been released. This release adds the wx.lib.agw package, adds an event watcher to the widget inspection tool, and fixes a bunch of bugs.

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wxPython 2.8.8.1 Released

Robin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:40:00 GMT

wxPython 2.8.8.1 has just been released, with a few bug fixes for issues found in 2.8.8.0.

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wxPython 2.8.8.0 Released

Robin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:44:00 GMT

After a much longer than anticipated time since 2.8.7.1, wxPython 2.8.8.0 has been released.

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