RE: [Boa Constr] RFE

[Riaan B. <ri...@tb...>]

Hi David,

> I have two requests for feature enhancements:
>
> 1. I would like to have a dialog pop up inviting me to give my own name to
> an app or control when it's created. It's a lot easier to figure
> out what's
> going on if I can call something nameLstBox instead of wxlstbox3 (or
> whatever: not a real world example).

Just making sure, you know about the Name property you should
set in the Inspector? Is this really that bad?

> I would prefer this to renaming the
> control after I have created it! For those who either don't mind
> it or don't
> want it, either a suggested default name could be in the dialog name edit
> control when the dialog control comes up so that the user can just hit
> "enter" or it could be a preferences option. It looks as though
> it would be
> a simple matter of modifying DesignerView.newControl(), at least
> for having
> the dialog all the time. No idea of how to make it a user preference.

As the current practice is the same as Delphi and other GUI builders,
it will stay the default behaviour.
We could have a 'dsPromptForNameAtCreate' preference setting.
But I'm not convinced yet.

> 2. Please, please, PLEASE update the documentation!!!!!

The 0.1.0 docs are accurate for 0.1.0.

For the next release I've already updated some of the application docs.
I haven't touched the tutorial as it needs a thorough rework, a more
maintanable format and more time than I have.

I do intend to put the core Boa docs back into the CVS repository
before the release.

Boa 0.2.0 will be released after the next version (2.3.4) of wxPython.
Hopefully soon!

Cheers,
Riaan.