Comments on: Food File is now Open Source

By: hanan

hanan — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:44:50 +0000

i downloded food file and its great application.
However, the mose inportant feature is missing, the ability to add my own foods to the database. for example i want to use it here in israel and lots of the candies we have here are mising from your database.

the next phase will be using the database to build a balanced diet. :)

By: Will

Will — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:28:48 +0000

Hi Emmett,

You are right that wxPython and Pygame don’t mix well. I wouldn’t go down that route.

Pygame does have GUI support via external libraries, so you could write an app you describe with Pygame. But if you want your app to have a native look and feel and not look too out of place with the OS then I would suggest using wxPython, which works well with OpenGL. The wxPython in Action book is highly recommended and should get you started quickly.

Hope that helps!

Will

By: Emmett

Emmett — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:51:34 +0000

Will, Tonight I was searching for python s/w tools to implement a project I have in mind, and I’ve ended up enjoying reading many pages on your blog. Thanks. Such is the http://www.

I am going to buy your pygame dev book for sure. At least to learn many good things, all new to me. Plus the wxpython in action book has just arrived to me via post. But pygame and wxpython don’t seem to mix well (or at all) - do they?

I notice your Food File program uses 3D opengl. Your glcanvas code is impressive, but it also looks fairly low level. Python I love. But game and general GUI control programming is new to me.

What python s/w tools would you choose if you wanted to create a cross platform (MS-Win, Mac-OSX and Linux) python program which has an interactively modified/rendered 2D pie chart with text labeling, and around that you also needed some typical GUI controls, like a a data entry panel, and file/edit pull down menus, all in the OS native GUI look and feel?

I did not know this would be so difficult. Hopefully it isn’t. After a little research (and seeing your program) it appears that glcanvas + wxpython is a perfectly viable option. But pygame sounds like it would be simpler.

Any advice appreciated, and hopefully of interest to some others.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:42:31 +0000

Glad you like it Gene!

I’ll post on my blog when it is updated. It probably wont change much, but I will update the database from time to time.

By: gene brown

gene brown — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:22:31 +0000

Will;
I have tried very hard and long to find a nutritional guide to aid me with my diabetes. You have supplied me with what I was looking for. May God richly bless and keep you.
Thank You and Thank you,
If and when you upgrade food file could I be notified?
gene brown

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:27:13 +0000

What you need to do is find a partner to sell your software for you if you don’t want to take the (rather large) amount of time to do it yourself. This is what I did and it works out pretty well! :)