[Pythoncard-users] ACCU conference

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

I was very lucky this last week to be able to attend the ACCU conference 
in Oxford, England. Kevin had been scheduled to give his talk on 
"Keeping it simple with Pythoncard" there, but was unable to attend, so 
I went in his place.

It's really great to be able to give and talk when all the hard work 
(i.e. the preparation and writing the slides) has been done by someone 
else :-)  The talk was a brief overview of Pythoncard, followed by a 
demo of building a simple app from scratch. While it was a simple app, 
it did demonstrate a variety of features, including component placement 
and editing, 'auto' event binding, menu building, using "command" 
instead of select in menus, dialogs, etc.

ACCU *used* to stand for the "Association of C and C++ Users" - I guess 
officially it still does, but in practice it has expanded to cover a 
number of other languages, and is essentially an organization, and 
conference, for professional developers. There were as many Java 
sessions as there were C++ ones, and there was a separate Python track. 
I believe the slides etc. will be available shortly, and once they are 
I'll send another note to this list to let you know where to find them.

There were a couple of other presentations on GUI systems for Python 
(using wxPython directly, and PyQt). Net result is I have come back with 
a re-invigorated set of ideas on what I'd like to see in Pythoncard, 
specifically in the Resource Editor to make it easier and faster to use, 
so I'll post those shortly.

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