[Pythoncard-devel] Re: [Pythoncard-users] Announce: PythonCard 0.8.2

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Alex Tweedly wrote:
> 
> 
> PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform  
> desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
> 
> Release 0.8.2 includes over 50 sample applications and tools to help  
> users build applications in Python, including codeEditor, findfiles,  
> and resourceEditor (layout editor). A list of changes since release 
> 0.8.1  is at the end of this message. New samples include a US-UK 
> converter and a Sudoku solver. There are a new set of "convenience" 
> functions to assist is creating pop-up menus and some commonly used 
> custom dialogs (usage of these is demonstrated in the Sudoku sample, as 
> well as in a new sample "helpful wrappers").
> 
> The tools/oneEditor directory contains a new version of the codeEditor,  
> named tabcodeEditor.py that supports tabbed editor panes and the  
> resource file popups from codeEditorR; once the code is more mature, it  
> will replace the current codeEditor. The original codeEditor remains for 
> now, but (unless problems show up) will likely be removed in the next 
> release.
> 
> The tools/resourceEditor directory contains a new version of the 
> resourceEditor, named multiresourceEditor.py which supports a number of 
> operations on multiple components, such as Align, Distribute and 
> Equalize, as well as visual tools to move components (Nudge) and to 
> re-layer them. The other major change is that the Property Window has 
> been redesigned to be larger, and display all properties at once, and 
> allow editing of any of them immediately. The existing resourceEditor 
> remains for now, though if the feedback on the newer layout is OK then 
> the old version may be retired at the next release.
> 
> The tools/standaloneBuilder has been extensively revised, and now 
> includes support for py2exe as well as pyInstaller.
> 
> PythonCard requires Python 2.3 or later and wxPython 2.5.2.8 or later.
> 
> You can download the latest release at:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19015
> 
> Please be sure to look at the migration_guide.txt file in the docs  
> directory if you are upgrading from a previous release. Since the  
> package name has changed, you can continue to use the older  
> PythonCardPrototype package simultaneously with the new PythonCard  
> package, but you must upgrade to wxPython 2.5.2.8.
> 
> 
> All the information you need about PythonCard can be found on the  
> project web page at:
> http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/
> 
> The installation instructions and walkthroughs are available on the  
> main documentation page:
> http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
> 
> For a list of most of the samples that have been built with PythonCard  
> and screenshots of them in action go to:
> http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples/samples.html
> 
> The kind people at SourceForge host the project:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncard/
> 
> If you want to get involved the main contact point is the Mailing list:
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pythoncard-users
> 
> Additional Notes:
> Remember to backup or just delete your old PythonCard directory before  
> installing a new version, so that the old files aren't still in the  
> package directory. If you installed a previous version of PythonCard on  
> Windows using the binary installer, then you should be able to remove  
> the old package via the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel.
> 
> The distutils installer will put the framework, components, docs,  
> samples, and tools in Lib\site-packages or your Python directory  
> (typically C:\Python23). Of course, on Linux and Mac OS X that path  
> will be slightly different and have forward slashes.
> 
> Windows users should get a PythonCard menu in the Start->Programs menu  
> with links to the documentation, samples, codeEditor, findfiles, 
> resourceEditor, tabcodeEditor and multiresourceEditor.
> 
> The tools and most of the samples will now keep their config and data  
> file info in the "pythoncard_config" directory created by the  
> framework. On Unix, the directory will be ~/pythoncard_config. On  
> Windows, the directory varies as described in the following post:
> 
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/PythonCard/1496793
> 
> So, if you run a PythonCard app with any of the runtime tools and  
> select "Save Configuration" from the "Debug" menu, the window positions  
> and sizes of your runtime windows (Shell, Message Watcher, etc.) will  
> be saved in "pythoncard_config/pythoncard_config.txt" not the  
> PythonCard directory. Likewise, when you change the text style used by  
> the codeEditor via the "Styles..." menu item under the "Format" menu,  
> the modification will be saved in "pythoncard_config/stc-styles.cfg"
> 
> Alex Tweedly
> al...@tw...
> 
> 
> changelog.txt changes since release 0.8
> 
> Release 0.8.2 2006-05-18
> added minimized and maximized attributes to Background class
> created documentation.py module to hold code previously in widgets.py
>   for automatically generating component and background docs
> added getTextExtent and getFullTextExtent methods to BitmapCanvas
> revised internationalResourceName to support platform-specific resources
> added UK <-> US to conversions.py and simplified SOAP.py module check
> updated turtle.py and bitmapcanvas.py component to force update on Mac
> renamed samples.py to samples.pyw
> added work-in-progress version of multiresourceEditor
>   (tools/resourceEditor/multiresourceEditor)
>   renamed to layoutEditor
> support customizable window styles in backgroundInfo of resourceEditor
> added convenience wrappers for pop-up menus, multiple check-box dialogs,
>   multiple button dialogs (helpful.py and samples/helpfulWrappers)
> added sample for sudoku solver/helper (samples/sudoku)
> replaced StringType with StringTypes to handle Unicode better
> Major update standaloneBuilder, including support for py2exe
> allow for Python2.4 or Python 2.5 on Mac
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net

Congratulations Alex, and all of the contributors to this release.

On an administrative note, do I need to update the freshmeat.net entry 
and has anyone updated the cheese shop (http://cheeseshop.python.org)?

Regards,
Andy
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