Re: [Pythoncard-users] State of PythonCard

[<ed...@le...>]

kc1...@ya... wrote ..

> I fully recognize that Pythoncard is an OSS project and I can't thank the
> developers enough for their efforts.  I simply like Pythoncard too much
> that I hate to see it go away *because* "
> the PythonCard developers have day jobs, partners, kids, etc which require
> occasional attention"  :=) 
> 
> The biggest difficulty I have with Pythoncard as it stands has to do with
> the resourceeditor or shall I say, the resourceeditors.  The "experimental"
> resource editor was a very nice improvement over the non-experimental version
> but it hasn't been updated beyond it's initial experimental stage.  As
> it stands, I have to click the command window back and forth in order to
> use it.   Eitherway, both resource editors are not very useful.  I ended
> up using my text editor to do most of the work and use the resource editors
> just as a verification tool to see whether there's error with what I do.
> So, for a start, having a stable and usable resource editor would be a
> big help.
> 
> Then there is the code generator (resource editor again).  I found myself
> spend a lot of time keep looking up which event a particular control can
> handle.  There is no reason why I can't be presented with a list of events
> a particular control can handle, and I click on the ones I want the code
> generator to create code for, and whoola, I get code stubs created for
> me.  I've seen other resource generators do that kind of stuff.

	Have you had a chance to look at Dabo? It addresses many of the concerns you expressed.
	
	It's quite actively being developed, and is growing in popularity among wxPython users looking for a simpler, more Pythonic approach to developing GUIs. It's been a few months since I've worked with PythonCard, but from what I remember, Dabo can do just about everything that PythonCard can, as well as a whole lot more.
	
	Our website is currently down, due to a major upgrade being done on our server (can you say 'reformat'? I knew you could!). But it should be back up within a day once I get all the kinks worked out with the change from Fedora to Ubuntu. But I at least wanted to point out that there is an alternative that might be what you are looking for.

-- Ed Leafe