Kevin Altis wrote:
> Jeff has made a good point about modularizing the current widget
> organization. Right now, all the widgets are defined in widget.py and other
> related elements are in spec.py, event.py, wxPython_binding.py. Part of the
> reason I went to the trouble of cleaning up the import statements in the
> framework was to simplify breaking widget.py up into separate modules, which
> I've wanted to do for a long time. Ideally, it would be nice to have one
> widget class per module file or to put all related widgets in a file. For
> example, TextField, PasswordField, and TextArea are all related text field
> classes.
>
> I don't actually know how to do a sub-package for the widget modules or what
> impact this would have on the rest of the framework. Sometimes, there are
> references to a widget class such as:
> PythonCardPrototype.widget.Button
>
> Ideally, rather than needing explicit imports, maybe the import statements
> could be wrapped in a for loop to import all of the modules in a widget
> directory? That would allow you to add additional widget modules without
> changing the rest of the framework. I need some help and suggestions from
> the Python wizards here.
Not sure how to do it, but I vote for this solution. Dynamic loading of
the widget library would be sweet.
> If we can do a reasonable split of widget.py, then the next step is to
> incorporate Jeff's ideas so that the spec and event classes specific to a
> given widget are contained in its module. Each widget module could also
> contain its own unit tests, which would be very nice.
Yep, this sounds good to me. I'd be glad to help on this one. I
haven't looked at Jeff's code yet but it sounds like he's on the right
track.
> These changes would move us much closer to treating widgets like real
> components.
>
> I think for py2exe to process the files correctly, you need real import
> statements, you can't rely on the framework doing some magic parsing of each
> module.
>
> I'm still trying to grok Jeff's code, so some or all of the answers to the
> questions above may be waiting in his code.
>
> ka
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