[Boa Constr] first impressions of Boa 0.1.0

[Hans-Peter J. <hp...@ur...>]

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Hi Riaan,

first thing, I wanna say: Incredible, Riaan!

Last time, I checked Boa a year ago, it was too flaky, but the current 
version is a great leap towards a tool for getting real work done.

I'm running it with python 2.1/wxGTK 2.3.2/wxPython 2.3.2.1 on linux 
2.4.18-pre4, SuSE 7.3 based diskless workstation.

For the record:
I had to manually fiddle with

export CFLAGS="-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHAVE_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT $CFLAGS"
export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS

to get wxGTK and wxPython successfully build (wxGTK configure flaw, AFAICS).

Now I was able to run boa.

Next, I configured boa to my needs. I discovered, that boa uses DOS 
linebreaks :-( Fortunately I found the autoReindent option, which fixed 
this for me :-)

To fulfil my basic basic code form needs, I would like to see an option
to use tabs for indention. I found some corresponding STC options, but 
they don't affect code generation and lead to indention errors, when 
activated  :-(

Some random findings:
 - X clipboard doesn't work in the editor (at least). :-(((
 - when editing a string in Designer->Inspector, <Return> doesn't stop that,
   and posting will loose it's modified content. I need to select another prop
   to get the former prop modified.
 - Setting font properties in Designer works as expected, but font face gets
   lost on runtime.
 - posting buttons doesn't allways work. Closing frame helps.
 - grayout (aka. blueout) results in ramdom char coloring (looks very strange)
 - Modifying MajorDimension in RadioBoxes results in crash on post.
 - Setting wxRA_SPECIFY_ROWS on them is ignored.

Some future thoughts:
 - STC background coloring of 'danger' and 'good' zones (It took me a couple
   of times to find the proper place where self.timer1.Start(500) didn't get
   lost after designer sessions)
 - Real i18n support
 - Some grid helpers (generic database interface)

Last thing points you in the direction, I have to go now for my next project, 
and I'm willing to give boa a try for that.

I would love to see the boa CVS activity rising.

Cheers,
  Hans-Peter