Ok Tim,

    I think I'm getting it.  What you have there is a list, and in that list 
are x amount of dictionairies.
x = the number of chat containers I have, in my case it's 6...  could be 10, 
or 50....

    and the way you have the dictionairies set up, would help in creating 
the instance in a given
frame.  One class or method that creates 6 frames.... instead of 6 classes 
that create a frame each, and the
construction of the frames is pretty much identical.

    And how this gets rid of global variables is by  creating those lists 
with the self.List in a given method
in a given class, this list can be accessed from anywhere in the class.  As 
far as how to access a list from another
class I'm not 100% on, however if the class is called MyClass, then I can 
access that class from another class
by defining it as self.MyClass = MyClass(class specific attribs here if any) 
so something like this:

Class X()
    self.ClassY = ClassY()

ClassY()
    self.searchstringtuple = ['x', 'y', 'z']

with something like that, anything defined as self in ClassY is also 
available in ClassX because ClassY is defined as self there too?

Wow...  I hope I'm not wrong because THAT there is what is holding me back 
in Python.  My "understanding"
of inheritance (right?  inheritance) is slanted.   Not so much I couldn't 
get around in
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@[...].com> 
To: <wxpython-users@[...].org> 
Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2008 14:16
Subject: Re: [wxpython-users] Py works, EXE doesn't here is stripped 
program, someone else verify please.


>  Steve Freedenburg wrote:
> >
> > I will attach the py file, the configuration file that TopiView makes 
> > when the user
> > sets it up, so you can see that too,  the "help" file which is as close 
> > to a __doc__
> > as could be, and a short wav file that will play when TopiView matches a
> > search string.  Small files really, maybe 85kb.
> 
>  But, can't you see how wasteful this code is?  If you want to add a 7th 
>  string, you have to make modifications ALL over the file.  Wouldn't it be 
>  obviously better to make this all a data structure:
> 
>  SearchStuff = [
>     {
>         'font': '0;-13;0;0;0;400;0;0;0;0;3;2;1;34;Arial',
>         'color': wx.BLACK,
>         'label': 'Your Label Here',
>         'search': 'Search String',
>         'soundpath': 'Not specified',
>         'soundfile': Not specified
>     },
>     {
>         'font': '0;-13;0;0;0;400;0;0;0;0;3;2;1;34;Arial',
>         'color': wx.BLACK,
>         'label': 'Your Label Here',
>         'search': 'Search String',
>         'soundpath': 'Not specified',
>         'soundfile': Not specified
>     },
>     ...
>  ]
> 
>  Now, instead of doing everything 6 times, you can do things once, in a 
>  loop:
>     for stuff in SearchStuff:
>         stuff['container'] = wx.MenuItem( Containers, -1, stuff['name'], 
>  'View or hide', wx.ITEM_CHECK );
>         Containers.AppendItem( stuff['container'] )
> 
>  and so on.
> 
>  If it were me, I would actually create a new class to hold all of this 
>  information, and create six instances of the class.  That would make it 
>  even cleaner.
> 
>  ANY time you find yourself writing the same code more than once, you need 
>  to think about how a data structure could help that.
> 
>  -- 
>  Tim Roberts, timr@[...].com
>  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
> 
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