pythoncard-users

[Pythoncard-users] hoping for more input

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

Writing all the "state of the framework" messages today wore me out, so I'll
post my thoughts on where we should be heading tomorrow. I really would like
to get more input from people other than "the usual suspects". If there
really isn't enough interest in the project to warrant some posts on this
topic then we need to take that in consideration as well. I was hoping that
more people would be interested.

Oh, I'm not giving up either Andy ;-)

ka

Re: [Pythoncard-users] hoping for more input

[Rowland S. <ro...@we...>]

As an experiment, I downloaded the latest code from CVS and made the 
following changes:

Renamed Stack to Application, ripped out all Stack-ish code which was 
mostly unused ( getBackgrounds() etc. )

Renamed Background to Window.  ripped out all Bacground-ish code which 
was mostly unused ( getFirstCard(), getNextCard(), etc. )

Deleted navigation.py - this module was all about navigating stacks and 
backgrounds and was almost entirely unused.

Modified Application to load and show all Windows discovered in the 
application resource file.  I used samples/proof.py to test the changes 
and it works fine.  I know this isn't the desired behavior, we should 
load all defined windows, and only show those that are 'visible', and we 
need a window management module that the Application can use.

The motivation for trying this was reading all of the state of 
PythonCard docs that Kevin so kindly cranked out yesterday.  I realized, 
that by damn, we have a lot of good stuff there, and I decided to at 
least devote a few days to helping take it to the next level.

Talk to ya,
Rowland

Re: [Pythoncard-users] hoping for more input

[Thomas H. <tho...@io...>]

I am one of those people knowing nothing about a Mac or HyperCard.
I tried to follow the link on the homepage to find out more about
HyperCard, but I gave up quickly. IIRC, there was more or less marketing rant.
Seems (if I am typical), that the name 'PythonCard' really scares people
away from this project?

Kevin has written up a lot of docs about the state of this project, which
I have only skimmed...
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Since I'm a developer of anygui, I _have_ been interested in this project
as far as my time allowed. I have several times looked at the screenshots,
and always had the impression that PythonCard progresses pretty fast - much
faster than anygui.

I've been playing with PythonCard some ten minutes yesterday
(running the samples, reading the source).

[Rowland Smith]
> Renamed Stack to Application, ripped out all Stack-ish code which was 
> mostly unused ( getBackgrounds() etc. )
> 
> Renamed Background to Window.  ripped out all Bacground-ish code which 
> was mostly unused ( getFirstCard(), getNextCard(), etc. )

I should have known this before trying to understand PythonCard, it would
have made much more sense to me. I wondered all the time about this stack
and background stuff.

Thomas