[Pythoncard-users] resourceEditor is under the Christmas tree

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

As a holiday present to myself I finished up the biggest missing feature of
the resourceEditor by adding a Menu Editor dialog. There are almost
certainly bugs since I just checked it in, but I'm hoping that we can now
edit a resource file from scratch or edit any existing sample resource file.
I am not supporting dialog editing yet, but users should no longer need to
edit a main resource file using a text editor.

I've attached a JPEG image of the Menu Editor dialog.

The Shortcut field is pretty cool, but perhaps non-obvious. When the cursor
is in the field, simply hold down the key combination you want and it will
be translated into the correct text for the key combination. For example,
hold down the Control key and the f key and 'Ctrl+F' will be inserted into
the field. Not all possible key combos are supported right now, but it does
the most common ones including the function keys. Use the backspace key to
clear the field.

*** There is no Undo support in the resourceEditor ***
So, if you make a major mistake while editing in a dialog, click Cancel so
the changes aren't saved. Use the Attributes menu item under View to look
over what will be saved to disk before doing a Save As... and keep backups
of your resource files between edits. The resourceEditor is still pretty
fragile, aka GIGO. For example, if you don't have a Menu as the first item
in the list and click OK, then the dialog will fail to build the Resource in
a try/except block and you'll end up with no menubar.

I would appreciate feedback and bug reports from those of you braving cvs
during the holidays. I plan to try opening, editing, and then saving every
.rsrc.py file in the current samples and comparing the output to the
originals, but that will take a couple of days, especially since I'm not
smart enough to automate the comparisons or use unit tests like a good
programmer.

I plan to make a 0.6 release before the end of the year, but I want to do
some more testing and hopefully get some feedback on the changes since the
0.5.3 release before I make another zip from cvs.

ka