Re: [Boa Constr] newbie question -- using Boa for creating a drawing canvas

[John B. <jbe...@ya...>]

Hi John,

I just thought that I'd jump in and offer a bit of
meta-advice here.  I know that jumping into an area
like GUI programming can be a bit daunting if your
primary area isn't computer science, and perhaps even
more so when you're using Open Source code since this
necessarily immerses you in the playpen of us CS types
:-)  I apologise if any of this advice is redundant to
you, but I have no way of knowing exactly what you
have and haven't worked out to date.

Firstly, let's look at the subject of what list to
post any specific question to.  The important thing
here is to understand that the code generated by Boa
runs stand-alone.  That is, Boa is not used only in
the design process.  It is not invoked at run time. 
Therefore any problem encountered at run time is
almost certainly a non-Boa problem and should be
directed to the wxPython list.  Similarly, any
question of the type "How do I get widget XXX to do
YYY?" is best directed to the wxPython list.  You can
be assured that all the "top" wxPython people know Boa
and will have no problems understanding your code.  A
lot more people read the wxPython list including many
non-CS types (even some medical researchers :-) )  You
should direct questions/grizzles re. code generation
and generated code to the Boa list.

On the subject of what platform to use, you're really
best off with the CVS version of boa, wxPython/Windows
2.3.2.1.  Have you got CVS under control yet?  I'd
advise against working on CVS versions of
wxPython/Windows as these are HIGHLY volatile and
often introduce new method signatures that Boa won't
understand.

John

--- Robin Dunn <ro...@al...> wrote:
> > John Bell gave the correct advice, but
> wxShapeCanvas is unfortunately
> > an exception to convention of supporting a 'name'
> keyword argument.
> >
> > Just for consistency I wish this could be added to
> wxWindows, Robin?
> 
> Done.
> 
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> Robin Dunn
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