[Pythoncard-users] XRC file support in PythonCard

[Winston W. <win...@st...>]

Is anybody thinking about integrating XRC files in PythonCard?

Here are my reasons why it would be a good idea:
	- Could use a number of GUI builders such as wxGlade.
	- PythonCard's resourceEditor has problems including:
		- on Mac OS X grow handles don't appear
		- on Mac OS X sizes get "stuck" and I can't grow widgets
		- Layouts/Sizers are not supported.

I'm thinking about a resource loader in PythonCard that would load  
an .XRC file (XML file written out by wxGlade or XRCed) and then do  
the regular PythonCard magic for binding events to widgets.

The great thing about PythonCard is how it links up widgets and  
handlers automatically, saving great amounts of time and simplifying  
your code.  Probably when it was first written, wxPython GUI editors  
were not very good, or didn't exist.  But now they are better than  
PythonCard's resourceEditor.  Let's leverage other's work on GUI  
editors, and take the good part from PythonCard.

Would anybody use this?  Would I be allowed to add it to the  
sourceforge repository?  Any other technical issues?

-Winston

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