Re: [Pythoncard-users] Re: PythonCard suitability for a project; looking for opinions

[John <joh...@jo...>]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Kevin Altis wrote:

> On Sep 15, 2004, at 6:07 AM, normanwinn wrote:
>
> >
> > A pretty neat design trick in Filemaker might be easily added to the
> > PythonCard resource editor. When an object is selected the arrow
> > buttons move the object a pixel (or grid position) at a time.
>
> Yeah that was on the to do list, so I just added it and checked the
> change into cvs. It supports 1 pixel movement right now. I didn't feel
> like grappling with the calculation to figure the right relative grid
> jump before I had some coffee, but I'll look at that later ;-)
>
> > If I manage to get my Python up to speed I'd like to try to generate
> > the function definition header directly in the code by double clicking
> > the item or event in the resource editor - =E0 la Delphi. Good or bad
> > idea?
> >
>
> This is another topic that has been brought up before. Since the
> resourceEditor doesn't deal with actually editing the code yet, events
> are not part of the attribute list since the assumption is that people
> will be using the codeEditor or some other editor to manipulate the
> source code.
>
> There is a codeEditorR.py program based on the codeEditor that has an
> additional experimental feature. When you are editing a source file, it
> reads the associated .rsrc.py file and provides a dropdown menu of all
> the components. When you select one of the components from the menu, it
> populates the second dropdown menu with a list of all the events for
> the component type. The events that are already defined have a + in
> front of the name. If you select an item with a + in front, the cursor
> jumps to that event handler in the code. If you select an event that
> isn't in your code, then an event handler stub for that event is
> inserted at the current cursor location.
>
> ka
>
Kevin this works on the samples but not on a project I converted by hand
fomr Pyhoncard prototype.

Is there something else I need to add to my source or resource to enable
this? Thanks.

-john
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