[Pythoncard-users] Announce: PythonCardPrototype release 0.4.4

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

PythonCard is a software construction kit (in the spirit of Apple's
HyperCard) written in Python.

You can download the latest release at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19015

Samples included in the latest release: addresses, conversions, dbBrowser,
dialogs, findfiles, minimal, proof, resourceEditor, searchexplorer, sounds,
SourceForgeTracker, textIndexer, tictactoe, turtle, widgets, worldclock

To see screenshots of some of the samples, visit:
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples.html
A description of each sample is included in the docs directory.

PythonCard home page
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/

SourceForge summary page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncard/

Mailing list
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pythoncard-users


PythonCard requires Python 2.1.x or later and wxPython 2.3.x. wxPython is
available at http://www.wxpython.org/

PythonCard relies on wxPython, it will support the Macintosh once wxPython
has been ported to the Mac.

PyCrust 0.6
PyCrust by Patrick K. O'Brien is included as part of the PythonCardPrototype
releases. If you would like to find our more about PyCrust or get a separate
distribution, please visit the home page at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/


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Changes since release 0.4.3 (2001-08-23):

Release 0.4.4 2001-08-30
added getting_started.html to docs\html
added basic status bar support
  statusbar.py module
  see test_turtle.py for an example
turtle sample updated
  test_turtle.py now uses a status bar and displays the
  time required to draw a design
  added line(x1, y1, x2, y2) method to turtle
added extra parametes to FileDialog to support saving files
  see resourceEditor for an example
  see dialog.py for complete list of options
added Namespace Viewer using PyFilling (part of PyCrust 0.6)
fixed numerous Property Editor edit/display bugs
  widgets are now displayed in the proper order
added Font support to all widgets
  Font class moved to font.py module
  the actual text descriptions of the fonts is going to
    change, so if you use them, just be aware that the format
    of the font descriptions will change by the next release
  a font can be passed to the Font dialog to set the initial
    font displayed
commented out 'import warnings' for Python 2.0 support
  but PyCrust usage still means that you need Python 2.1.x
  if any Debug windows like the shell will be used
fixed unitialized empty bitmaps on win98
added append method to Choice class
added setFocus method to Widget
dbBrowser sample updated to version 0.2
resourceEditor changes
  resourceEditor can now save .rsrc.py files
    make sure to only work on copies in case of bugs
    also some hand editing of .rsrc.py is still necessary
    depending on what you're trying to do
  Duplicate Widget menu item now causes the duplicate to
    be offset 10 pixels so it can be selected to select
  added template.rsrc.py for defaults
worldclock sample demonstrates simple use of logging