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Hi Everyone,

I'm starting learning python about 2 weeks, and still have
difficulties to create GUI based application because I never learn
about classes and other OOP things. Does anyone knows how to
create text console application like clipper using python.

Thanks,

 

[Albert Hofkamp]

Hi Everyone,

I'm starting learning python about 2 weeks, and still have
difficulties to create GUI based application because I never learn
about classes and other OOP things. Does anyone knows how to
create text console application like clipper using python.

I don't know what clipper looks like, but you may want to have a look at
curses, which I believe is also available with a Python interface (no
doubt called pycurses or something in that direction).


Albert

 

[Ken Roberts]

Hi Everyone,

I'm starting learning python about 2 weeks, and still have
difficulties to create GUI based application because I never learn
about classes and other OOP things. Does anyone knows how to
create text console application like clipper using python.

Thanks,

For those who ask - clipper is a programming language that is a
compiled version of dBase relational database scripting language.

 

[Graham Fawcett]

For those who ask - clipper is a programming language that is a
compiled version of dBase relational database scripting language.

I'm not old enough to have stories about how I hacked on a shiny new
PDP-10 or any such thing. But seeing Clipper on c.l.py brings back
memories; my first real programming job was writing a database app in
Clipper. How blazingly fast it was, compared with the earlier dBase III
version of the app! Clipper was the One True Way to write data-driven
apps. Or so I thought: I was a green kid back then, and hadn't even
heard of SQL...

Those console-based data-entry applications were infinitely more
efficient for a good typist than anything that involves (or even allows)
a mouse.

rhapsodically yours,

-- Graham