Re: [Pythoncard-users] presentation ideas?

[<kim...@ya...>]

Alex Tweedly wrote:
> kim...@ya... wrote:
> 
>> I don't know whether this is true or not with other
Python GUI 
>> toolkits (I only know PythonCard) but I
>> find PythonCard extremely easy to handle situations
>> where you have a number of user interfaces that are
>> quite similar and yet each one has it's own
subtleties
>> that needs its own code. 
>> For instance, with the application I am developing,
I
>> have many situations like that.  So, what I did was
to
>> define a super-class for all of the similar GUIs.
Then I have one file 
>> (module) for each of the GUIs,
>> and subclass them from the super-class.   This way,
I
>> can have a resource file for each of them, and yet
>> share lots of the common action code as long as I
>> structured the code accordingly.
>>
>>  
>>
> If you have an example of that you'd be willing to
share, I'd love to 
> see it (preferably the code etc. , not just a
description, please).
> 

In my case, I have a lot of lists that require
editing.  So, I have a GUI with a left list, and a
right list.  Now, there are lots of things I want to
do with such a panel.  Like: move an item from the
left side to the right side, sort the lists, move them
up and down, and so forth.  But then with some lists,
I don't want them sorted and I don't want the sort
button at all.   Some might have additional controls
in addition to the left/right list....

Some buttons essentially do the same thing but
requires different labels...

All of which can be done by additional if/then/else
code but that makes the code quite unreadable and hard
to maintain.  So, I use the sub-classing architecture
instead.  The code comes out very very clean and easy
to maintain.

I can put together tonight when I get home.  




>> I really like PythonCard.  The only gripe I have is
>> the lack of more detailed documentations, like
which
>> control supports which method and so forth - the
>> existing documentation needs a lot of improvement. 
I
>> had to spend a lot of time looking through code
before
>> I can figure out how to do certain things.
>>
>>  
>>
> Did you look at the html files created from the
"widgets" sample ?
> Is there more detail that you need, or something
missing  from there ?
> 

Yes, I have.

> (that's for the first part about details of which
controls support which 
> methods; I agree more documentation would be good -
though I really like 
> looking at the samples to see how things are done.
Given a choice of a 
> certain level of effort in writing docs vs.
extending samples to give 
> more coverage, I'd put the hours of effort into more
examples ...)
> 
> 

This is always a chanllenge for programmers... :=)

-- 

John