I have been searching for a way to create simple utilities for a while now and was quite happy when I found the Vala website. But I am a sometime Perl scripter, and refugee from the old-school mainframe coding era - now a full-time technical documentation and software support person. I'm rusty enough to know it's going to take a while to learn this. And that's okay, mostly but recently I was tasked by my manager to take over support of a Python utility that is used to create configuration files for an internal specialized database tool.
While the script is pretty straightforward (it uses easygui to gather parameters, parses a config file and writes out another, XML-formatted config file), our internal installs of Python are not and I thought it would be pretty cool to translate it to Genie. But I'm struggling to learn from the bits of code posted here and there on my own time so I need to either get out my Python book and learn to do that freeze thing or ask for help. (I had started to take apart the Picture Viewer -cool program, btw- but got bogged down pretty fast.)
While this isn't a homework request per se, I do realize that it is not cool to ask someone to do real work for me. I'm not in the position to pay someone to do this but I thought that perhaps someone might take it on if I made a donation to Puppy via Barry Kauler's donate button. So, I donated $25 to start with. I will make an equal donation to Puppy or another open source project if we can get close to my script with a Windows-compiled Genie program. I hope this request doesn't offend... this kind of program could be useful to many people, since it reads, parses and writes out a file and could easily be adapted for a variety of uses.
I work in a MS Windows environment but I like Puppy a lot and use it often at home. My granddaughter loves the Barbie version I downloaded for her a couple of years ago. Now that I know there is a way to do small, cross-platform tools I'm looking forward to learning more about the Puppy/Genie platform.
Thanks,
Terry
p.s. the attached file includes the python script, the config file and a copy of easygui so someone can run it. I only included one out of four possible file types, so only run the paf choice.
How to convert a Python program to Genie?
How to convert a Python program to Genie?
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- sample.jpg
- screen print of the easygui.py input screen
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- genie2.zip
- file with python script, sample input and output file
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- technosaurus
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Not much help with windows here, but xml should be fairly portable - maybe someone else knows if anything is more portable than gtk (fltk/qt don't have vala bindings AFAIK)
Have you had a look at these vala example:
http://live.gnome.org/Vala/XmlSample
http://code.valaide.org/search/node/xml
anyhow - it doesn't seem so intense that python couldn't handle it on windows
Could probably speed it up quite a bit by combining the fileout.write calls into one per function. (xml ignores all of that free space and there are plenty of auto-formating tools)
I just posted on a thread here a couple days ago for doing something similar using basic utils that are in busybox (sed, grep, cut, echo...)
Have you had a look at these vala example:
http://live.gnome.org/Vala/XmlSample
http://code.valaide.org/search/node/xml
anyhow - it doesn't seem so intense that python couldn't handle it on windows
Could probably speed it up quite a bit by combining the fileout.write calls into one per function. (xml ignores all of that free space and there are plenty of auto-formating tools)
I just posted on a thread here a couple days ago for doing something similar using basic utils that are in busybox (sed, grep, cut, echo...)
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].
Thank you for replying but I think I may have not been very clear in what I need. The script is working, more or less, in Python but I want something compiled so that users don't have to worry about Python versions (easygui needs 2.6, I think) - or even Python installed at all. All the users will be in the Windows environment, so busybox is not an option. I know this is a Linux forum but I've seen many references to Windows and the best thing about Vala/Genie is that it's cross-platform.technosaurus wrote:Not much help with windows here, but xml should be fairly portable - maybe someone else knows if anything is more portable than gtk (fltk/qt don't have vala bindings AFAIK)
Have you had a look at these vala example:
http://live.gnome.org/Vala/XmlSample
http://code.valaide.org/search/node/xml
anyhow - it doesn't seem so intense that python couldn't handle it on windows
Could probably speed it up quite a bit by combining the fileout.write calls into one per function. (xml ignores all of that free space and there are plenty of auto-formating tools)
I just posted on a thread here a couple days ago for doing something similar using basic utils that are in busybox (sed, grep, cut, echo...)
Although the output file is XML format, I don't need to worry about that because I have the text chunks already to write to a file once the variables are substituted. It's wrapping my head around the file interaction dialogs and figuring out how to parse the data I need from the input file that is hard with a new language. I had considered Autoit or Autohotkey but again, Vala is the better choice in the long run.
I actually found a program that is very similar to what I need inside Vala Toys for Gedit:
http://code.google.com/p/vtg/
It's called ValaGenProject and I've been struggling to get it compiled with Vala so that I can then play around with it. Not only am I not having much luck, it's Vala and Genie is just so much easier to follow.
FTR, I have successfully compiled several small samples from the Vala website in Windows but this is more involved. Maybe when I get the time I'll download a Puppy that is setup for compiling Vala.
It would be nice to see a comparison of file commands - Python/Genie. That might make it easier to translate something like this.
Thanks again,
Terry
- paulhomebus
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I recently had success compiling something into an exe with cxfreeze...
It packaged up the wxPython/wxwidget based program quite well.
Tho I had to do my compiling in Ubuntu -- but it worked in Lupu 5.1...
Dpg4x is the result here....
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 714#443714
Paul
It packaged up the wxPython/wxwidget based program quite well.
Tho I had to do my compiling in Ubuntu -- but it worked in Lupu 5.1...
Dpg4x is the result here....
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 714#443714
Paul
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I remember I compiled something with something2exe if I remember right, but the executable was rather big, about 2.5 MB.
There is no way to write something that runs on any operating system and any platform except scripts (Python/Perl/...).
I just gave up on that, I write stuff in Perl or Python when I work with databases or complex stuff (like Pdebthing ). I don't care about Windows users ... all other systems have Perl.
There is no way to write something that runs on any operating system and any platform except scripts (Python/Perl/...).
I just gave up on that, I write stuff in Perl or Python when I work with databases or complex stuff (like Pdebthing ). I don't care about Windows users ... all other systems have Perl.
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