RE: [Pythoncard-users] components framework

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

That sounds *very* nice.

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Patrick K. O'Brien
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pyt...@li...
> [mailto:pyt...@li...]On Behalf Of Kevin
> Altis
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:49 PM
> To: pythoncard-Users
> Subject: [Pythoncard-users] components framework
>
>
> Components are another big issue that was brought up in the app framework
> threads on wxPython-user. Windows COM is the most widely used form of
> components, but there are also other forms of components like JavaBeans.
> When Rowland and I started work on the very first pieces of
> PythonCard back
> in July a friend of ours pointed out that the only way we could create a
> framework with long-lasting appeal was by supporting a component model.
>
> There are a number of problems with trying to do components while
> trying to
> do something that works with multiple computer languages, across multiple
> operating systems, and multiple GUI toolkits, that makes a component model
> an almost impossible problem to solve.
>
> If you limit your solution space to a single language such as Python and a
> single GUI toolkit such as wxPython that already works across
> platforms then
> the problem space is limited enough that it appears to be doable,
> yet still
> powerful.
>
> Jeff Turner's message and code having to do with modularizing the
> organization of widgets rather than spreading out the class definitions,
> specs, and event bindings brought this issue back to the top of the
> framework issues. Rather than just modularizing the widgets, why not go
> ahead and turn them into components?
>
> Rowland is working on a component base that will let us treat the existing
> widgets as components and make it possible to build compound
> components and
> subclass standard components in the framework. This should also
> address the
> issue of an app having its own custom components.
>
> ka
>
>
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