On Friday 26 June 2009 10:32:35 am Mike Mabey wrote:

> Hi everyone,

>

> I've got an app that has a dPageFrame separating the various functions.

> One of the pages is dedicated as a Help tab. I discovered the dHtmlBox

> widget and thought this might be a good way to display a help page inside

> the app. The problem is I've been trying to link the dHtmlBox widget to a

> locally stored .htm file with no success. Here's what I've tried:

>

> - Putting the file name inthe Source property. Then I figured out that

> this was for displaying HTML source code.

> - Putting the file name in the Page property. According to what I

> understand from the documentation, this should have worked, but the

> widget kept trying to find http://help.htm

> - Setting the dHtmlBox's Page property to os.path.join(os.getcwd(),

> 'help.htm') when the form initializes. The problem I ran into doing it

> this way was setting the RegID of the dHtmlBox. I don't know why, but in

> ClassDesigner, I could only type numbers and the letter 'e' in the RegID

> field of the Object Info window. I tried setting it manually in the .cdxml

> file, but when I ran the code, I got the following error:

>

> Traceback (most recent call last):

> File "PreferenceManager.py", line 22, in <module>

> main()

> File "PreferenceManager.py", line 15, in main

> app.start()

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\dApp.py", line 372, in start

> self.setup()

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\dApp.py", line 328, in setup

> self.initUIApp()

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\dApp.py", line 364, in initUIApp

> self.uiApp.setup()

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\ui\uiwx\uiApp.py", line 412, in

> setup

> frm = self.dApp.MainForm = dabo.ui.createForm(mfc)

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\ui\uiwx\__init__.py", line 1145,

> in createForm

> frm = cls(*args, **kwargs)

> File "c:\users\ecegra~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpeow3q3.py", line 9, in

> __init__

> super(dForm_31058, self).__init__(parent=parent,

> attProperties=attProperties, *args, **kwargs)

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\ui\uiwx\dForm.py", line 931, in

> __init__

> BaseForm.__init__(self, preClass, parent, properties, attProperties,

> *args,**kwargs)

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\ui\uiwx\dForm.py", line 44, in

> __init__

> fm.dFormMixin.__init__(self, preClass, parent, properties,

> attProperties, *args, **kwargs)

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\ui\uiwx\dFormMixin.py", line 89,

> in __init__

> attProperties, *args, **kwargs)

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\ui\uiwx\dPemMixin.py", line 86,

> in __init__

> self._initProperties()

> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dabo\dObject.py", line 177, in

> _initProperties

> self.initProperties()

> File "c:\users\ecegra~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpeow3q3.py", line 585, in

> initProperties

> self.Form.HelpPage.Page = tmp

> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'HelpPage'

>

> Obviously, the string I set as the RegID was 'HelpPage'. I am trying to

> change the property with the following code:

>

> def initProperties(self):

> self.ShowStatusBar = False

> tmp = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'help.htm')

> print "Opening "+str(tmp)

> self.Form.HelpPage.Page = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'help.htm')

>

> The initProperties() method belongs to the dForm object. I'm not sure if

> that's where I should have put it, but I was trying a few different places

> and none of them seemed to make any more sense or work any better than

> this.

>

> I'm sorry this is such a complicated problem, but any help you can offer

> would be very appreciated. Oh, and by the way, I'm running Python 2.5 in

> Win Vista Pro under revision 5270.

>

> Thanks,

> Mike M.

Mike, I can't confirm entering the RegID problem with ClassDesigner. I had no

trouble. Of course I tested on Linux and NOT windows (maybe a vista thing).

Can you post a simple test case? I'll test on XP and Linux.

--

John Fabiani