[Pythoncard-users] GUI resourceEditor sample

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

I've checked into cvs the first version of a GUI resource editor for
PythonCard.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pythoncard/PythonCardPrototyp
e/samples/resourceEditor/

You can open any .rsrc.py file and it will change the window size and
position to match the stack attributes and create all of the 'components'
for the background. The resourceEditor will also attempt to set the
background attributes such as backgroundColor, image, and tiled. It does not
change the menubar or window title. If you open up a .rsrc.py file that
doesn't have a menubar, such as worldclock.rsrc.py then the window height
will be off by the height of the menubar; I guess I should list that as a
bug.

I'm not going to do a daily release until tomorrow at the earliest (this is
too new and I'm too tired), so if you can get it from cvs and let me know
what works and doesn't work, that would be very helpful. Please see the
readme.txt first before posting a known issue. I have no idea if the drag
and resize will work correctly on Solaris and Linux, so my fingers are
crossed.

I just started this app today, so it doesn't do much right now. We really
need to get multiple windows working (which is probably a few weeks in the
future) and a decent property editor before you'll be able to get away from
editing .rsrc.py files by hand.

If anyone would like to volunteer to work on the Property Editor or want to
take the resourceEditor and make it fabulous, please raise your hand. I can
help anyone that wants to come up to speed. You will have to code wxPython
directly in places in order to work on either the Property Editor or
resourceEditor even though most of the resourceEditor is simple PythonCard
stuff.

Please post what features you would like to see to the list. If you just
want it to emulate Visual Basic or Delphi or some other favorite environment
you've used in the past, please provide specifics for those people on the
list that haven't used that particular tool before.

ka