RE: [Pythoncard-users] the future direction of PythonCard

[Patrick K. O'B. <po...@or...>]

I'm confused. These goals sound more like what anygui is attempting than
what I thought PythonCard was all about. At the very least they sound like a
back-to-the-drawing-board approach. I don't think I have the energy for
that.

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech
"I am, therefore I think."

-----Original Message-----
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Smith
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] the future direction of PythonCard

<snip>

So, what would I want in an application development environment?

1. A well defined component model that allows for flexible extension of
the overall framework.

2.  A high-level, well defined gui component model that can be
implemented using one or more underlying gui toolkits - wxPython, GTK,
Aqua, etc.  The gui wrappers take a lot of time, but they make us think
about how we really want to interact with gui components and give us the
freedom to expose those behaviors and attributes that we feel are
valuable in our own way.

3.  A component communication model.  The prototype uses events to
communicate between components ( Widget objects ) and user scripts.  But
we really don't have a way for components to communicate with components
- I'm not sure how to do that, but it seems important.

4.  A flexible scripting framework that allows us to plug in different
scripting models for different classes of application.  We currently use
a scripting model similar to VB ala method naming conventions.  It's
possible we could have multiple scripting models - one could be more
Model-view-controller based.  One could be based on action objects, etc.

Oh yea, and Multiple Windows ( seriously ).

--
Talk to ya,
Rowland

"The whole problem with the world is
that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, and wiser people
so full of doubts."

-- Bertrand Russell,
    quoted in the book
    A Word a Day


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