Re: [Dirssync-opendisc] Testing, GUIs, and boa

[Mark C. <xs...@uk...>]

Vincent:
> I've tryied to splt the GUI from the rest. That's why
> the class Transfer has been created. All the
> synchronisation functionalities are there, the rest is
> pure GUI.
> It seems that you have not the same feeling. 

The problem is that Transfer has, for example, options passed in to it. options is derived from wxPanel. So some kind of separation between options and wxPanel is required.

To take another example, class panellist contain the functions mkdir, copy, rmregfile, rmdir. These don't really belong there - they are not GUI functions, but part of the Transfer functionality.

There are no insurmountable problems - it's just a case of working through it.

> Yes, I know Boa, It's a quite good IDE for wxPython.  
> But In 2000 Boa was not so good. May be now, it's the
> good time to re-try it.

It still has its little ideosyncracies - but they can be overcome. And its *much* easier to use their GUI designer than it is to hand-code GUIs.

Once a GUI has been designed using Boa, it is best to commit to it forever more. Boa "autogenerates" many UI things, and may become upset if hand-coding supplements the GUI components. It has functions which it labels "do not edit this code" - *and it means it*, because it will probably wipe out any changes that one makes to code that it designates as off-limits.


> I'm interested by the initiative and will support it.

Could I persuade you to give Boa a try?


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