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

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Schollnick, Benjamin wrote:
>>>Very useful....  I would suggest that Kevin consider adding 
>>
>>it to the 
>>
>>>Resource editor and maybe even expanding on it....
>>>
>>>Possibly noting any non-default values that have been 
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>>configured for 
>>
>>>the widgets...
> 
> 
>>The danger with this approach is that the printer friendly version 
>>*could* get out of sync with the resource file. Especially if the 
>>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.... 
> 
> So it is a moot point.
> 

Sorry, but there you are wrong. The whole point of making the resource 
file a valid Python  file is so that you aren't restricted to using the 
resourceEditor to amend it.

This is an important point and if there is any misunderstanding or 
mis-communication I think we should address it. Is there anything in 
particular that led you to this conclusion?


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> 
> 
> 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.

See Kevin's point about scriptlets, this is a perfect use case for one.

Regards,
Andy
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