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

[Sells, F. <fr...@ad...>]

Back in the 90's my company made a commercial Motif GUI-Builder. From that
experience I concur that being able to manually edit the resource file is a
necessity, even though it may be seldom used.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Todd [mailto:an...@ha...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:36 PM
To: Schollnick, Benjamin
Cc: pyt...@li...
Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] newbie, tool to print resource structure
Importance: Low


Schollnick, Benjamin wrote:
>>>Very useful....  I would suggest that Kevin consider adding=20
>>
>>it to the=20
>>
>>>Resource editor and maybe even expanding on it....
>>>
>>>Possibly noting any non-default values that have been=20
>>
>>configured for=20
>>
>>>the widgets...
>=20
>=20
>>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.
>=20
>=20
> While that is a valid concern.... In my opinion the user is not suppose
> to edit the file outside of the ResourceEditor....=20
>=20
> So it is a moot point.
>=20

Sorry, but there you are wrong. The whole point of making the resource=20
file a valid Python  file is so that you aren't restricted to using the=20
resourceEditor to amend it.

This is an important point and if there is any misunderstanding or=20
mis-communication I think we should address it. Is there anything in=20
particular that led you to this conclusion?


[snip]
>=20
>=20
> 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)
>=20
> 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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