Re: [Pythoncard-users] Re: Volunteer proof-reader(s) wanted.

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

normanwinn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In making an attempt at the proof reading (here's somewhere where my 
> naive Python state is actually useful) I found myself running the 
> resource editor to check out the text. I found some issues.
>
> Platform Windows XP, laptop 1400x1050 screen resolution
> PythonCard version: 0.8.1
> wxPython version: 2.6.1.0
> Python version: 2.4
>
> Here they are:
>
> 1. My resourceEditor Property Editor window isn't sized properly. The 
> 'Update' button is cut off, both bottom and right. This is probably a 
> tiny thing to correct but, as it is something that a beginner hits 
> right off, it might/must discourage some.
>
I don't see that problem. Same versions (XP Home, slightly later 
PythonCard from CVS, but there've been no changes in the 
resourceEditor), though lower screen res (1024x768)).

> 2. I created a Dialog Template and edited one or two properties. I hit 
> 'Update' and previewed my dialog. It hadn't changed. I then closed the 
> resourceEditor and saved my work. On re-opening it my changes were 
> there. Is this correct behaviour?

Not really. There is a note in the source that this should be changed. 
I'll take a look at it.

> I just worked it out. I have to save first and then I see my changes. 
> Doesn't the 'Update' button suggest it does this?

Not really, the Update button means that the changes in the property 
field are accepted and "made" in the internal resource (the Update 
button used to be much more important than it is now - nowadays the 
change is taken when you navigate away from the edit field).

> Might actually be nice to have 'Preview before' and 'Preview with 
> changes' buttons. 

Tricky. If you've made some changes, then saved, then made some more ... 
the "preview before" would show the last saved version, not the one just 
before the current change.

> Which would kind of lead to an 'Undo' feature. I'm probably wandering 
> into Pythoncard 2.0 territory but the neat way the resource is stored 
> would appear to make a multiple resource 'Undo/redo' straightforward 
> to implement.
>
Sounds like 2.0, or at least 1.1    Undo/redo can soak up a lot of space 
and CPU if we save a whole resource file for each change ....need to 
experiment to see if that's feasible.

> 3. When I click the 'Show Desktop' icon on the Windows system tray, 
> everything disappears correctly. When I then just want to look, say, 
> at Alex's work in the browser, the resourceEditor components show up 
> as well. Is this a Windows TM issue?
> (Oh, how I miss 'Hide others' as on the Mac)
>
Sorry, but what's the "Show Desktop" icon ?   Or maybe I should say "How 
do you get one of those ?"


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