Re: [Pythoncard-users] Announce: PythonCard 0.8.2

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

Grats and thanks to Alex for learning the ropes on getting a release  
out and doing the work this time around. There are actually quite a  
few more little bug fixes in this release than the release notes  
might lead you to believe so I encourage everyone to upgrade and then  
let us know what is still broken so that can be fixed ASAP. Try out  
Alex's new layoutEditor, the tabcodeEditor, etc. and give us some  
feedback.

Thanks,

ka

On May 22, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

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> PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform   
> desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
>
> Release 0.8.2 includes over 50 sample applications and tools to  
> help  users build applications in Python, including codeEditor,  
> findfiles,  and resourceEditor (layout editor). A list of changes  
> since release 0.8.1  is at the end of this message. New samples  
> include a US-UK converter and a Sudoku solver. There are a new set  
> of "convenience" functions to assist is creating pop-up menus and  
> some commonly used custom dialogs (usage of these is demonstrated  
> in the Sudoku sample, as well as in a new sample "helpful wrappers").
>
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> Alex Tweedly
> al...@tw...
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> changelog.txt changes since release 0.8
>
> Release 0.8.2 2006-05-18
> added minimized and maximized attributes to Background class
> created documentation.py module to hold code previously in widgets.py
>   for automatically generating component and background docs
> added getTextExtent and getFullTextExtent methods to BitmapCanvas
> revised internationalResourceName to support platform-specific  
> resources
> added UK <-> US to conversions.py and simplified SOAP.py module check
> updated turtle.py and bitmapcanvas.py component to force update on Mac
> renamed samples.py to samples.pyw
> added work-in-progress version of multiresourceEditor
>   (tools/resourceEditor/multiresourceEditor)
>   renamed to layoutEditor
> support customizable window styles in backgroundInfo of resourceEditor
> added convenience wrappers for pop-up menus, multiple check-box  
> dialogs,
>   multiple button dialogs (helpful.py and samples/helpfulWrappers)
> added sample for sudoku solver/helper (samples/sudoku)
> replaced StringType with StringTypes to handle Unicode better
> Major update standaloneBuilder, including support for py2exe
> allow for Python2.4 or Python 2.5 on Mac