[Pythoncard-users] resourceEditor saves and other changes

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

The resourceEditor now saves files. I also hacked it up so that it gets
pretty aggressive about not saving default values, but it might be overly
aggressive and I still can't make it deal with 'size' correctly. So if you
need a -1 or -2 value for any size attribute you're going to have to hand
edit the .rsrc.py files. Remember when editing and saving to always work on
a copy, no telling what bugs might be lurking, but it seems to work
reasonably well. I copied the samples directory and then opened and saved
every .rsrc.py and they all ran fine afterwards.

There is a template.rsrc.py file that is loaded by default so even if you
start the resourceEditor and just start adding widgets, it will save a valid
.rsrc.py file. You can still preview the output with the View Attributes
menu item.

There is no editing of stack, menu, or background attributes, that is
probably going to have to wait until we have some generalized dialog
support. That means you still need to hand edit the .rsrc.py files to
add/change menus and other crucial attributes.

I haven't switched font formats yet, but the Property Editor now correctly
displays the current font attribute for a widget and test_widgets.py allows
you to set the font for all widgets. The font dialog now accepts a Font as
an input parameter and if that is not equal to None, then that is the
default font you start out with in the dialog.

The FileDialog now accepts a number of extra parameters for saving...
FILE_OPEN  # This is an open dialog.
FILE_SAVE  # This is a save dialog.
FILE_HIDE_READONLY  # Hide read-only files.
# For save dialog only: prompt for a confirmation if a file will be
overwritten.
FILE_OVERWRITE_PROMPT
# For open dialog only: allows selecting multiple files.
FILE_MULTIPLE
# Change the current working directory to the directory where the file(s)
chosen by the user are.
FILE_CHANGE_DIR

All old samples work without change, but if you look at the new Save As...
in the resourceEditor you'll see the new options at work.

Due to the reliance of what is in cvs on the new PyCrust, I'm going to wait
to do a release until Patrick puts out PyCrust 0.6.

ka