Re: [Pythoncard-users] Estimated release date for new version of PythonCard

[Brian M. <mrb...@gm...>]

I slept on this. Perhaps Property Editor run options could be
saved in pythoncard_config/pythoncard_config.txt
Only "other args" would be passed as command line args,
just the the way I want my program to receive my
own args.


On 11/10/05, Brian Mahoney <mrb...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I'm not going to be set up for CVS soon enough. My input is
> based on the current release of PythonCard for Windows.
> I want to check on the Property Editor run options problem.
> These are collected as a string from the "Other args" text field
> in the "Run Options" window launched from the Property Editor.
> Things go well until all args are copied into self.cmdLineArgs in
> getCommandLineArgs() in resourceEditor.py. This method has
> no self.cmdLineArgs['otherargs'] so the other args string never
> makes it into the args variable of runScript().
>
> Actually, I'm not sure if I want them in the args variable, anyway.
> If I'm using the optparse module or the clever recipe for parsing
> a docstring to validate command line options
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278844
> then the additional PythonCard options mess up my valid
> command line options. I think in 99% of cases these PythonCard
> options are only used by a developer, not an end user, who is running
> a program with only the options which I am ready to handle with
> my code.
>
> Maybe I would be better off if the Property Editor run options window
> let me save all options as one environment variable. Or anything that
> would leave the command line options as I intended while getting
> the "run options" information to the PythonCard initialization.
>
> Is this too much to ask? Especially as no one else has complained
> about this. I just really like documenting and validating my command
> line args and the Property Editor arg technique makes it difficult.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> On 11/10/05, Phil Edwards <ph...@li...> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 23:14 +1100, Andy Todd wrote:
> > > > If people want to post specific issues with the current release,
> >
> >
> >
>