[Pythoncard-devel] adding a revert to saved and loschess sprint

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

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?XpCodeSprint

This past weekend we had a coding sprint and many people used the 
codeEditor and tabbed codeEditor for editing files. All the files were 
in cvs, and were updated many times during each hour, typically after 
each small change. This made it very clear that there needs to be a 
more effective way of identifying that a file that has changed on disk 
that is out of sync with the view in the editor.

So I need to get feedback on what the common menu item name is for 
"reload file from disk", "revert to saved" or whatever. I also want 
suggestions for what other editors do to watch for disk changes such as 
you would get from cvs and then auto-reloading or presenting the user 
with the option for reloading from disk, perhaps changing what is 
displayed in the title bar as well to indicate the file has changed. 
Then Alex or I will update the codeEditor and tabbed codeEditor to 
support these features.

The sprint was quite fun and should be described by Ward Cunningham and 
others in their blogs soon (fingers crossed). A fairly large group of 
people picked up the idea of creating a line of sight chess game, one 
person was established as the customer and then we used agile (extreme) 
programming practices to create the application using PythonCard with 
fairly quick iterations over two days, roughly one iteration every 60 
to 90 minutes. As with the previous coding sprint where I introduced 
people to PythonCard, only one other person had used PythonCard before. 
This time around, while all people were seasoned coders, only a few 
actually knew Python, which gave us another challenge, not the least of 
which was getting everyone setup with Python, wxPython, and PythonCard 
on three different OS platforms with a somewhat shaky wireless network. 
Still as you can see by what is in cvs, we made a lot of progress on 
the model as well as the display of the game and another day would 
probably have been enough to fill out the missing bits.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LineOfSightChess

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/remorse/losc/

The current plan is to finish the loschess project as a joint XPDX and 
PORPIG coding project and then roll it into the PythonCard samples when 
it is done.

ka