[Pythoncard-users] FW: Questions and comments...

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald D Stephens [mailto:rd...@ea...]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:21 PM
To: Kevin Altis
Subject: Questions and comments...


I must say that, the more I study the source code, the more impressed I get.
Even to a newbie, it seems to be elegant, in that it
makes sense. I do not claim to udnerstand all of the details at all, but I
feel that I get the big picture. I also feel that this
work will lead to some good things.

By following the tutorial, I can modify the minimal.py and minimal.rsrc
files  and get all kinds of neat results. I wanted to share
some of these results with the list, because surely any other newbie around
who has doubts would be impressed that even I could
modify, at this vey early stage, and get "results". But when I rename the
two files (minimal.py and minimal.rsrc) I get error
messages.

In working my way through the various error messages, I learn and fix some
things,. But I have one question that I woudl apprecite
help on:

In the backgrounds section of the rsrc files (I am looking at most of the
sample rscr files or all of them) , I do not yet
understnad where the 'name': comes from, as in bgWidgets in the following
code snippet;

  'backgrounds':
 [
  {'type':'Background',
   'file':'test_widgets.py',
   'classname':'WidgetsTest',
   'name':'bgWidgets',       <= <=<=<=<=
   #'image':'tile.bmp',
   #'tiled':1,
   'components':

I do not understand where bgWidgets comes from , and also the anologous name
under resource file backgrounds of the other samples. I
think if I could understand this I might be able to fix my problems and
create successfully renamed files that allow me to claim a
"significant" ;-)))
(bear with me OK ) first newbie PythonCard "program". This to me would be a
stunning breakthrough.

Anyway, I am sufficiently "hooked" to keep at it in my "spare" time.

I am really looking forward to a visual gui layout tool, but I can wait; I
am enjoying studying the Python code of this project!

I think I will also post about the availability of this project on Byte
magazine's John Udell online forum, unless Kevin objects. I
just discovered this forum and lots of folks there are interested in this
sort of thing, and Python is often intelligently
disucussed.

Ron Stephens