[Boa Constr] Boa - newbie question on subclassing and CodeCompletion
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From: Thomas R. <t....@ne...> - 2002-09-03 15:14:36
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Hi! I have to admit having not very much experience with python programming and being a Boa-newbie.... Of course I'm very keen on finding a time-saving way of GUI-programming. Boa definitely looks very exciting. After getting the latest CVS-revision of Boa (yesterday), I was able to do a little "Hello world" app successfully within a reasonable amount of time. Fine! While using Boa for another more sophisticated programming example, some questions about the underlying philosophy of Boa did arise: A have realized that it is currently not possible to do subclassing with wxWindows-controls and then use it in the Boa-designer. As subclassing is a feature I use quite often, I would be interested to know: - Is this restriction based on the current design of Boa? Or will it be possible in the future to use the Boa-designer with subclassed controls? - Shouldn't be python a programming language being "dynamically enough" to close the gap between "compile-time" and "run-time"? I'm not sure, but I think there are Java-GUI-builders that execute the code of the subclassed control within the designer-window... When programming my first python-GUI-example, I realized that my personal programming performance was quite low: Being new to wxPython, finding out the right spelling of every wxPython API-function was rather time-consuming... - Does Boa offer some features that assist the programmer during coding? - Does a CodeCompletion-feature make sense? Or am I using boa just the wrong way? I hope that nowbody gets me wrong. I consider Boa to be a great tool and I just want to use Boa exactly the way it is intended to be used.... Thanks in advance.... Thomas |