nitinthewiz / pydayone

A cross-platform python app to show your Day One entries and let you make new ones. Tested in Windows.

pyDayOne

A Windows based python app to show your Day One entries and let you make new ones. Tested in Windows 7.

FAQ

Q. Why?

Ans. Because Windows Day One support is sad (read: non-existant).

Q. Hasn't this been done before on BitBucket

Ans. Yes and No. The bitbucket one is in .NET. Very sucky. Python is cross-platform and has everything you need.

Q. Bugs exist

Ans. Probably.

Requirements

The following python modules need to be installed -

1. pyGTK

How to Run this?

1. You can run it from command prompt/terminal with the command - "python pyDayOne.py"
2. You can compile it into an exe/app and if you do, you can give it to me too, so I can distribute it to people. :)

Major Bugs -

1. Doesn't support many languages like Chinese (utf-8 encoding only)

pydayone's Issues

Changes required for running in Linux

What changes in this code would need to be made to get it to run in Linux?

I started to look myself and changed a few things but haven't had much luck. It tends to get hung up on not being able to find the journal entries even when I point it in the correct location.

I'm guessing it's something to do with path names and \ vs /.

Requires wxPython

Upon trying to start the app with python, I kept getting an error that read no module named wx, which I learned was related to my not having wxPython installed.

May want to mention within the README that this requires wxPython.

Ran in IDLE, got error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\tenkabuto\Desktop\pyDayOne.py", line 222, in <module>
    app = MyApp(0)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx\_core.py", line 7981, in __init__
    self._BootstrapApp()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx\_core.py", line 7555, in _BootstrapApp
    return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\tenkabuto\Desktop\pyDayOne.py", line 217, in OnInit
    frame = MyFrame(None, -1, 'pyDayOne')
  File "C:\Users\tenkabuto\Desktop\pyDayOne.py", line 86, in __init__
    tree = ET.parse(self.directory+file)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1177, in parse
    tree.parse(source, parser)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 653, in parse
    parser.feed(data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1624, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1488, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 7

Text area & menu resize to fit window size

I can't touch any items that are below the cut-off of the window. The left menu and right text area should resize to fit the window's size.

TypeError: String or Unicode type require

This sounds like a life saver, but alas I cannot get it to run, it returns the following.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\username\Desktop\pyDayOne.py", line 222, in
app = MyApp(0)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx_core.py", line 7981, in init
self._BootstrapApp()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx_core.py", line 7555, in _BootstrapApp
return core.PyApp__BootstrapApp(_args, *_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\username\Desktop\pyDayOne.py", line 217, in OnInit
frame = MyFrame(None, -1, 'pyDayOne')
File "C:\Users\username\Desktop\pyDayOne.py", line 118, in init
self.text.SetValue(self.sorted_dict[single_entry])
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx_controls.py", line 1754, in SetValue
return controls.TextCtrl_SetValue(_args, *_kwargs)
TypeError: String or Unicode type required