[BioPython] wxpython prototype

[Jeffrey Chang]

Hi Cayte,

I've finally gotten around to installing wxPython.  I've started running
your GUI, and I really like where you're goin with it!  It's definitely
the first step towards getting these tools out of the hands of the
informaticians and into those of the biologists.

I'd like to check the stuff you have so far into the main development
tree.  Would that be ok with you?  What would you like to call this
package?

Thanks,
Jeff



On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Cayte wrote:

>   I just uploaded a wxpython prototype, SeqGui.py to pub/katel/biopython/Bio on the ftp site.  After a few hours of bafflement, I was able to get wxConstaints to do what I wanted.  In the same ammount of time, I was able to get the TKinter LayoutGrid to sort of do something like I wanted.
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> > Andrew said
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> >Okay, then my final statement is that I've
> >found that the GUI is not that large a part of applications I've worked
> >on, and can be written in such a way that different GUIs can be used
> >with only minimal change to the internals. 
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>   Potentially, the gui can help the researcher visualize hidden patterns.  Some day, when I'm feeling rich, I',m going to get hold of  The Display of Visual Information:).
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>    USER STORY:
>        Ellen Elegans has discovered a new protein, but  she is not sure what its function is, and her eyes are tired from poring over text.  She runs the protein through a program that highlights protein motifs in color.  She recognizes the motifs as appearing often in digestive enzymes, so she suspects the protein has to do with digestion.
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