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Russell E. Owen
I've put up a new version of my RO utility package at
<http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/ROPython.html>. Highlights include:
Tkinter stuff, including:
- Nicely wrapped tcp/ip sockets that make connections without blocking
the main loop, queue written data as required, return read data via
callbacks and also report status changes via callbacks.
- An ftp get widget (like a browser transfer window) that handles file
transfer and status display. Connection and transfer occurs in a
background thread and so cannot block the main loop.
- Widgets that support help and input verification
- A scrollable frame.
- A set of Toplevels that can remember and restore location and size and
whether each was visible.
- An implementation of preferences, including scalars, colors, fonts,
files, directories and sound files. This includes a prefs editor and
saving and restoring.
Astronomy coordinate system conversions. (Many of these are SLALIB
routines that I converted to Python. Commercial use requires a license
from Pat Wallace, the author of SLALIB).
Basic utilities for sequences, strings and data conversion.
Dict subclasses that remember the order in which items were added or
store values by appending to a list.
A key-value parsing and dispatching system which could be useful for a
networked GUI (that's what I use it for).
A telescope user interface I am writing relies on them, so they are
being maintained. I hope somebody finds them useful.
-- Russell
<http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/ROPython.html>. Highlights include:
Tkinter stuff, including:
- Nicely wrapped tcp/ip sockets that make connections without blocking
the main loop, queue written data as required, return read data via
callbacks and also report status changes via callbacks.
- An ftp get widget (like a browser transfer window) that handles file
transfer and status display. Connection and transfer occurs in a
background thread and so cannot block the main loop.
- Widgets that support help and input verification
- A scrollable frame.
- A set of Toplevels that can remember and restore location and size and
whether each was visible.
- An implementation of preferences, including scalars, colors, fonts,
files, directories and sound files. This includes a prefs editor and
saving and restoring.
Astronomy coordinate system conversions. (Many of these are SLALIB
routines that I converted to Python. Commercial use requires a license
from Pat Wallace, the author of SLALIB).
Basic utilities for sequences, strings and data conversion.
Dict subclasses that remember the order in which items were added or
store values by appending to a list.
A key-value parsing and dispatching system which could be useful for a
networked GUI (that's what I use it for).
A telescope user interface I am writing relies on them, so they are
being maintained. I hope somebody finds them useful.
-- Russell