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

[Neil H. <ne...@sc...>]

Kevin:

> These are document exports, not apps. Neil already has the .hta examples
in
> the PythonCardPrototype directory as an example layout reuse. I can't
> imagine anyone doing real web layout wanting to design something in
> PythonCard and then export to HTML using our standard tools.

   If Python is installed on the client and is integrated with the browser
as it can be for IE or Mozilla then it may be possible to hook up the code
depending on how wx-specific that code is. Not an easy project though.

   There are other techniques such as providing a PythonCard player plugin
or an "export to plugin" similar to "export to EXE". Are there any benefits
to this? Possibly ;-)

> Neil can comment on the time, effort, and difficulty of writing a good
> editor. It won't be a walk in the park, but yet that is what we'll most
> likely use when the editor in the IDE effort starts or if we do some
> experiments with runtime editing of scripts which is possible within
limits.

   Writing a small editor isn't all that hard. I don't expect the initial
version of an editor for PythonCard that handled the vast majority of needed
features would take long at all. You can get tied up in details though. The
biggest question to me would be how do you determine which files are part of
a PythonCard project and where within those files are the event handlers? Do
you do VB style file segmentation or just present the whole file to the
user?

   Neil