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

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

Alex Tweedly wrote:

> It's not in the "normal" codeEditor, it's in the "advanced" version, 
> which can be found, rather confusingly, in
>  PythonCard/tools/oneEditor/tabcodeEditor.py
> 
> Has two features not in the basic editor
> - uses tabbed notebook to allow multiple files to be edited
> - has a drop-down for all controls in the current file
>       Selecting one of them makes another drop-down appear.
>       This shows all events for that control type, with a "+" marking 
> those for which a handler exists.
> 
> Selecting one of those will position the cursor on the first line of the 
> handler.
> Selecting one for which no handler exists yet will insert a "blank" handler
>               (without ensuring your on a blank line - use with care :-)
> 
> This "advanced" editor is "experimental" - hasn't been as widely used or 
> tested as the basic one, so use with care. Having said that, I've used 
> it almost exclusively for many months and had only one (repeated) glitch 
> (something to do with opening new windows while the shell window is open 
> - but couldn't reproduce it).
> 

Oh, this looks very handy indeed.  Thanks.

What about a facility for adding background event handlers too?  I 
initialize mentioned in a tutorial, but I can't find a refernce to any 
others.

Don.