RE: [Pythoncard-users] newbie, tool to print resource structure

[Schollnick, B. <Ben...@xe...>]

> > Very useful....  I would suggest that Kevin consider adding=20
> it to the=20
> > Resource editor and maybe even expanding on it....
> >=20
> > Possibly noting any non-default values that have been=20
> configured for=20
> > the widgets...

> The danger with this approach is that the printer friendly version=20
> *could* get out of sync with the resource file. Especially if the=20
> resource file is edited outside the resourceEditor.

While that is a valid concern.... In my opinion the user is not suppose
to edit the file outside of the ResourceEditor....=20

So it is a moot point.

> I think the original suggestion is better, just a little routine,=20
> something like;
>=20
>  >>> resfile =3D open('<resource file name>')
>  >>> resource =3D eval(resfile.read())
>  >>> for background in resource['application']['backgrounds']:
>  >>>     for component in background['components']:
>  >>>         print "%s: %s %s" % (component['name'],=20
> component['type'],=20
> component['position'])
>=20
> N.B. it should be a trivial exercise to turn this into a handy=20
> documentation function and put it into a module. I'll leave that (and=20
> any bug fixes) as an exercise for the reader.

Then you are making an automated task into a manual task that has to be
run after every change made on the file.... (i.e. Pydoc)

If you are concerned about allowing the user to do a manual execution of
this....  Then we could make a stub so that the user can run it....  But
it should stay in the resourceeditor to make it automagically updated
when edited in the resourceeditor.

		- Benjamin