FW: [Pythoncard-users] hoping for more input

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Heller [mailto:tho...@io...]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 11:26 AM
To: Kevin Altis
Subject: Fw: [Pythoncard-users] hoping for more input



----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Heller" <tho...@io...>
To: "pythoncard-Users" <pyt...@li...>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] hoping for more input


> I am one of those people knowing nothing about a Mac or HyperCard.
> I tried to follow the link on the homepage to find out more about
> HyperCard, but I gave up quickly. IIRC, there was more or less marketing
rant.
> Seems (if I am typical), that the name 'PythonCard' really scares people
> away from this project?
>
> Kevin has written up a lot of docs about the state of this project, which
> I have only skimmed...
> -----
> Since I'm a developer of anygui, I _have_ been interested in this project
> as far as my time allowed. I have several times looked at the screenshots,
> and always had the impression that PythonCard progresses pretty fast -
much
> faster than anygui.
>
> I've been playing with PythonCard some ten minutes yesterday
> (running the samples, reading the source).
>
> [Rowland Smith]
> > Renamed Stack to Application, ripped out all Stack-ish code which was
> > mostly unused ( getBackgrounds() etc. )
> >
> > Renamed Background to Window.  ripped out all Bacground-ish code which
> > was mostly unused ( getFirstCard(), getNextCard(), etc. )
>
> I should have known this before trying to understand PythonCard, it would
> have made much more sense to me. I wondered all the time about this stack
> and background stuff.
>
> Thomas
>