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

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

I'm very interested in using sizers so I will make some time to test  
for you.  I can test on Mac OS X only though, no Linux.

Regarding distribution size, I think 7MB is no problem, and it makes  
things simpler all around to have one file to distribute.

-Winston

On May 29, 2006, at 7:28 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

>
> 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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> Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net
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