[Pythoncard-users] Script Encapsulation

[Peter C. <pe...@pe...>]

One thing I loved about HyperCard was the nice clean script encapsulation 
it provided.    The samples seem to have all the code in one module - while 
that's often the best design, it's not as physically intuitive.  Each 
HyperCard object had a script property, making an ideal place to store 
handlers applicable to that object, even if the objects name changed or it 
was copied to another stack.  That was always more satisfying to me than 
the all-in-one approach that Visual Basic takes to handlers, where one 
change to the object name breaks every link.  I wonder how hard it would be 
to implement script encapsulation in PythonCard.

Perhaps an object script could be stored as a dictionary of functions keyed 
by function name?  Then the script could be a property of an object, in 
true HyperCard sense. Of course, that implies a built in script editor to 
manage the scripts - perhaps a subset of IDLE.  Sigh - I can see it all 
gets rather complicated.

Peter