[Pythoncard-users] moving menubar and getting rid of stack?

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

It is a simple change to push the menubar down from the stack to the an
attribute of the background which is where I think it should be. It does
mean I have to move the menubar in all of the the .rsrc.py files and update
the resourceEditor and a few other files, but I want to do that before I
dive into any deeper changes. It shouldn't impact any user code.

The Stack class no longer has a purpose in the prototype model since there
is really only one Background and that is likely to just become one of many
Windows or Forms or Layouts... of the app. We already get the current
background from the app, not the stack.

bg = pcapp.getCurrentBackground()

Removing stack will also shorten some of the existing sample code and
framework elements that refer to application attributes and methods will be
shortened:

  self.stack.app.applicationDirectory
becomes
  self.app.applicationDirectory

Removing Stack will actually require even more resource changes and
framework fixes, so I won't start that until after menubar is moved and I
have a chance to go through some of the details. We can continue to use the
convention that the first background in the list of backgrounds is the
"main" background until we think of a better organization.

Like everything in the framework and samples, this is open for discussion,
but if there is none, I'll check in the changes sometime tomorrow.

I'm very eager to push the framework further ahead this month to help with
these discussions about terminology and names. Everyone should continue to
reply to the "What Do We Call These Things?" thread while I put my coding
cap back on :)

ka