Re: [Pythoncard-users] Platform specific restrictions.

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Brad Allen wrote:

> Thanks for bringing this up, Alex. I hadn't tried any of those 
> settings on the
> Mac. The only limitation I was aware of was on button height; apparently
> there is UI standard for button height on Mac OS X, and wx keeps you
> from violating it while running on the Mac. If you create a tall
> button on another platform, and then run it on a Mac, the button
> smashes down to the standard size, leaving your button label hanging
> outside the button (usually above).
>
Thanks Brad - I had seen that one, but had forgotten it again

> I like the idea of a popping up warning dialog when using LayoutEditor
> to change a widget in a way that causes problems with other platforms.
> It should explain in each case which platform doesn't support the change,
> and offer to either cancel the change or apply anyway. 

I think it would more likely be generic
   "feature not evenly supported on all platforms, see 
http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/PythonCardPlatformRestrictions
    for list of known restrictions"

> There could also be a checkbox in the dialog saying "Don't warn me 
> about this again."
>
> For those who are targeting only a single platform, and find the warnings
> annoying, create a preference setting for multiresource editor:
>
> checkbox: "Disable All Cross-Platform Warnings"
>
>>  If that was a preference - should it be per-user, or per project ?
>
>
> I didn't know that PythonCard had a concept of "project". I had
> assumed the preference would be per user, but if you can tie it to
> a project that would be great. Some projects target cross-platform,
> while others do not.
>
It doesn't have a 'project' concept - I should have said "per resource file"



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