Re: [Pythoncard-users] Multiple item move (was Re: Odd behaviors of Pythoncard under Ubuntu: errors on exit, StaticText over BitmapCanvas, multiple item move)

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

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> I think we're on the same wavelength :-) You're saying that you can do multiple selection in the PythonCard resource editor, yes? Because I can't...
>
> ...hang on...
>
> ...got it. It works in the layout editor...which I haven't got around to using much yet. But not in the resource editor.
>   
I'd use the layout editor in preference to the resource editor. It was 
intended to be a replacement for the older (single-component) version, 
and as far as I know has no significant problems that would require you 
to use the older version. There may be issues with component order on 
the Mac, but I think they were all resolved.

Actually, it was intended to be a first step towards a combined editor 
that would incorporate both resource/layout editing and code editing - 
but that was much too big a problem for me, so I stopped at making it a 
better layout editor, incorporating the features I thought were most 
needed. I made some efforts towards incorporating sizers (but never 
succeeded in getting them anywhere near to right). Someone else did do 
some work on a sizer based editor - but at the time I was unable to even 
try it out, so I don't know how far that effort got.

A couple of years ago, I made a switch from PC to Mac, which was 
absolutely disastrous for Python use, so I never did get Python + wx + 
Pythoncard to all work adequately, and was effectively unable to do any 
Pythoncard work for quite a long time. I have now switched back to a PC, 
so I can at least run the tools and look at things; but I still have 
relatively little (i.e. almost no) time to do any programming, so I 
can't realistically offer much hope that I will do significant 
development on Pythoncard any time soon.

-- Alex.