[Pythoncard-users] QuotesViewer, my first PythonCard application

[Ronny De W. <ron...@gm...>]

Today i released my first PythonCard application:

QuotesViewer is a GUI giving you easy and fast access to quotes of all 
shares on the
Euronext stock exchange.  http://quotesviewer.sourceforge.net/

The GUI is not rocket science, in fact it is rather simple. However i am 
very pleased i
could produce this with relative limited effort, thanks to PythonCard, 
wxPython, ...

I want to share my experiences up-to-now on PythonCard with the mailing 
list:
- Adequate documentation, especially the tutorials and the sample 
applications are
   very useful. API documentation would be most welcome.
- Responsive help on this list, thanks!
- I have the impression that PythonCard cannot hide the wxPython complexity.
   Perhaps that's not the goal, but needs perhaps better documented,
   wxPython knowledge is useful for all but the most simple applications.

Some topics where i spent some time on, or where i am still looking for 
improvements:
source
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/quotesviewer/quotesviewer/euronextBrowser.py?rev=1.2&view=auto
- *from* PythonCard.components *import* *
   needed this to let py2exe find all the components
- *def* *autoSizeColumns*(self)
   would expect PythonCard/wxPython should do this automatically
   have to call this everytime the multiColumnList changes, i wonder
   if this can be done in one single place ?
- *def* *on_btnUpdate_mouseClick*(self, event)
   is this the right way (using yield) to disable the button until 
operation is finished,
   or is there a simpler way ? *
- def* *on_about_command*(self, event)
   Contains metadata also used in other files, perhaps  should refactor 
it out to a __init__.py file ?
- Don't have much experience with distutils, wonder if my setup.py sdist 
is ok ?
- Didn't have the chance to test my application on other platforms than 
win32. Anybody cares to give
   it a try on linux, Mac OS ?
-  Does anybody know the scripts/crontab job i should use on the 
sourceforge shell server to
    automatically update the web home pages from the CVS repository on a 
daily basis ?

Any feedback is welcome!

Thanks to all who made PythonCard to what it is today, and continue with 
the good work!

Ronny De Winter