[Pythoncard-users] Adventurous testers wanted ....

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

I'm about ready for an alpha release of the sizer additions to the 
layout editor, so I'm looking for a small number of people to test it.

Note that I do not want to put any of this code into CVS yet, possibly 
not for some time, so trying it out will involve some effort in 
downloading and installing. It requires changes to quite a lot of 
PythonCard, not just within the layoutEditor.

It is (intended to be) upward and downward compatible
 - old (existing) resource files work fine
 - new resource files created with this will work fine on the old PythonCard
but of course, it is an alpha release so there may be bugs, and also it 
MAY create resource files which are not acceptable to later versions 
(should be easy to get around, at the very worst a simple manual edit of 
the resource file).

Documentation will be scant (i.e. this email and another like it), so it 
would be helpful for testers to be at least partially aware of how 
sizers work in wxPython already.

What does it support ?
  Box Sizers only !!
  spacers (fixed and stretchable)
  new "background info"  selection of "use sizers" to control whether or 
not to use the sizer info
  new "Run Option"  (-i) to control the display of indicators to help 
see where sizers are

What does it not support ?
  Grid sizers
  incomplete set of insertion options
  no drag and drop form the layout window (or prop editor window) into 
sizer tree
      (but there is d'n'd within the sizer tree, and also "select and 
drop" from layout window into sizer tree / new sizer)
  no slick graphics in the sizer tree (should have different images per 
sizer/comp but don't yet)

Anyone interested, please let me know (including system, wxPython 
versions, etc.) I've tested on Win XP (lots) and Mac (some), but don't 
have access to  Linux .

Also, let me know what you think about distribution. PythonCard is 7+ 
Mb, still over 3 when zipped, so I've been thinking about distributing 
without samples, docs and most other tools, which brings it down to 
~500Kb - small enough I could always distribute complete snapshots, 
minimizing the chances of confusion. Would that be convenient to use ?



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