[Pythoncard-users] overriding flatfileDB's on_editNewCard_command? dialog bits?

[richard k b. <ri...@co...>]

i'm a pythonCard newby, and these questions are probably way stupid.
but answers to either would help me considerably:

  #1: i've trying to make a minor, test change to the flatfileDatabase
sample.  i thought i would decorate each card with a bit
of static text that shows its creation timestamp.

so i added a new component in the .rsrc.py file:

> {'type':'StaticText', 
>     'name':'enterDate', 
>     'position':(427, 19), 
>     'text':'yymmdd', 
>     },
> 

using resourceEditor i see that the command associated
with the "New Card" button is "editNewCard" and so i
then added a handler to my class:

> 	def on_editNewCard_command(self, event):
> 		print "editNew"
> 		self.components.enterDate.text = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%y/%m/%d %H:%M')
> 		flatfileDatabase.FlatfileDatabase.on_editNewCard_command(self, event)

but nothing happens?!  whether i click on the NewCard
button, or use the Menu's "New Card" option (which
MenuEditor shows me emits the same command), i DO
get a new card, but i do NOT
get the enterDate static string to be anything other
than its default "yymmdd".  i also do NOT see the "editNew"
debugging message printed (whether i have full logging
and debugging on or not).

#2: i'd like to make use of dialogs described at:
	pythoncard.sourceforge.net/dialogs/
using the codeEditor's scriptlets seems helpful,
but can you point me to JUST WHERE these bits should
be dropped, into an application like flatfile, addressbook...?

thanks for any help.

	rik