[Pythoncard-devel] Resource Editor behaviour ....

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

On Pythoncard-users, Alex Tweedly wrote:

>
> C.  Resource Editor
>
> (these are in descending order of importance to me, or increasing 
> difficulty of implementation)
>
> 1. property editor window.
> I find the current property window pretty clunky. Instead of 
> displaying (and allowing editing of) one property at a time, with a 
> list to select which property, I'd rather see a "display panel" 
> approach where all the properties of the current component were shown 
> (and all available for direct editing).  If this takes up too much 
> screen real-estate, we could drop back to showing one of a number of 
> subsets (basic, appearance, etc.) - but given that there relatively 
> few properties, I think this won't be a problem.

I decided to tackle this - and was amazed to find how easy it was (or at 
least, seems to have been). In about 1-1/2 days I've go this up and 
running (as far as I can tell with the limited testing I've done so 
far). I don't know of any NEW bugs - but I've run into a few that all 
seem to be there in the released version (0.8.1 - not cvslatest).

Before I go and look into these, I thought I'd just check to see if 
anyone else has seen these, or looked at them at all, or have any 
ideas/suggestions, or ...

1. Menu selection using Alt- sequences (WinXP) are flaky. Shortcuts 
always appear to work, as does the mouse - but sometimes the Alt-key 
sequences don't - the "primary" letters show as underlined, but other 
letters don't trigger any action that I can see.

2. Moving components using arrow keys is flaky.
Usually it works, but after selecting some component types, the arrow 
keys stop working. Noticed this with Bitmap Canvases, and I *think* I've 
seen it with other components.  Once they've stopped, it's hard to get 
them to work again but can be done most days.

3. Clicking on the "File..." button to specify a file name (for an Image 
or ImageButton) will fail unless the background has already been saved.  
(This seems to give a value of None to one of the path names, and hence 
cause an error in Pythoncard/util.relativepath).

Any ideas ?  Or should I start debugging these ?

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Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net



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