Re: [Boa Constr] OGL & help files

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hello Blaine,

Blaine Lee wrote:
> 
> FYI: OGL is object graphics library.  It is designed to make [org, flow,
> CASE] charts easy.
> 
> I am trying to use OGL on a new project, when I looked through Boa's
> code, there were several references to the library, but I cannot find
> anything in the pallet, nor do I understand Boa's internals to figure
> out how to activate it.  Riaan, what is the future of OGL in Boa?

Boa uses OGL to provide the UML and Import diagram views.
See Views.OGLViews.py
In terms of the Frame Designer the best I hoped to do was provide a
wxShapeCanvas on the Palette, but I am not sure that is really useful
or that it is to do anything more.
When you use the OGL library you will usually require dynamic code 
rather than the static code that the Designer can generate.

> 
> I did add a line in config.py so that the OGL view is loaded, but still
> nothing.  I am using the CVS version (0.1.1), NT4, wxPython 2.3.2

There is no config setting to load the UMLView and Import views, they
are associated with Python modules.

Open a Python module in Boa and from the menu select: Views->UML,
or from a PyApp or wxApp module select: Views->Imports

> 
> Regarding the help files, I downloaded the doc zip.  It appears that
> there is only help on cvs, wxPython and Python.  I thought there was a
> Boa tutorial as well as some other docs specifically for it.  Did I not
> go to the right area?

The docs was split up into the Boa core docs (App help and Tutorial)
and extra docs (Python, wxPython, CVS) because of the size.
The core docs are available in the .src.zip file or the .win32.exe
files on the download page.

> 
> Blaine
> 

HTH,
Riaan.