Re: [Pythoncard-users] six blind men describe the beast

[Rowland S. <ro...@we...>]

Kevin Altis wrote:

> For inspiration...
>   http://www.wordfocus.com/word-act-blindmen.html
> 
> It has been a while since we had the "what is it?" discussion. I didn't list
> everything and some people will/should object to some of the statements
> below, so go ahead and throw in your two cents (or possibly a hong kong
> dollars worth). Maybe we'll put the results up on the web site and keep it
> up-to-date as the project progresses so our goals are clear.
> 
> ka
> ---

> is not designed to run inside a web browser


Definitely.  If someone wants to write a tool that generates a web app 
from PythonCard, that's great, but it's not something we want to take on


> 
> does not force the use of Model View Controller (MVC) on user code


It would be nice if the programming model facilitated use of MVC.


> the cross-platform aspect means that it won't have the same
>     capabilities as an OS-specific app/framework that can take
>     advantage of platform-specific code. in particular, there
>     is no support for QuickTime, Real, Windows Media Format, MPEG,
>     MP3s, etc. in some cases, you can do platform-specific apps
>     using these technologies. you are not going to be able to do
>     all the things you could do say with Flash, at least not in the
>     near future.


As long as we define interfaces like Movie and Sound, then others can 
extend them to support different formats/media.



> support editing programs in standard editors (vi, vim, emacs,
>    PythonWin, IDLE, etc.) and not be forced to edit in and IDE


It's certainly nice to be able to edit code in your favorite editor, but 
for PythonCard to really be useful it's going to need a slick, powerful 
app builder/ide available as soon as possible.  This is something that I 
would like very much to work on.


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Rowland

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