Dev-Picayune

Major thumbs up again to wxWindows. I have started on a new temporary project to get some of my energy back. I need a utility to copy image files off of my compact flash cards via my high speed USB 2 reader. I can use explorer since it is just a drive letter in the system but I want it to do like the camera’s software does and have it put each file in a subdirectory named after the date the file was created on. So the utility needed to recurse through all subdirectories on the card, find all files and then based on the date of the file, put it in a subdirectory off of a root subdirectory that is supplied (creating the directory if necessary). So far so good, I have the first tab, it copies files, creates subdirectories, disables the selection options while copying, uses a timer event for copying machine friendly, updates the progress bars, shows the file names as they are being copied.

The big thumbs up goes for wxPython (wxWindows) in that nearly all controls are Windows XP themeable… which is something that is not even true for .NET unless you set all controls to FLAT mode SYSTEM and issue a special call at the beginning of the program. wxPython is themed appropriately out of the box. That is why you see the unusual window design… it is my current XP theme.