[Pythoncard-users] Re: PythonCard, Eclipse and Pydev

[Don T. <nos...@ca...>]

Don Taylor wrote:
> Total Newbie question - I have not yet tried PythonCard or wxWidgets but 
> I will 'real soon now'.
> 
> I presume that I can use Eclipse+Pydev for my Python editing while using 
> Pythoncard to edit my resources.  My question is can I run and debug a 
> PythonCard application from within Eclipse+Pydev?
> 
> I know that I can try this out myself (and I will) but has anyone else 
> tried this, or something like it, and what pitfalls I should look out for.
> 

I tried this last night and it seemed to work quite nicely - at least 
for the few minutes that I played with the 'minimal' app simultaneously 
in both Eclipse/Pydev and the resource editor.  I was able to run the 
Pydev debugger on minimal and it looked OK.  Eclipse recognized when a 
file it was editing changed on the file system and offered to reload it.

More play to day.

Don.

(FWIW.  The main reason I like Eclipse is because of its local history 
feature, I don't think that I want to live without it.  You can safely 
bash away at some source and save it multiple times knowing that you can 
always go back to a working version without having to remember what you 
need to do to undo the changes.  It is like having a local version 
control system that automatically commits your changes whenever you save 
  a file.  I don't know if other editors/IDEs have this feature.)