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[Pythoncard-users] release 0.4.6 zip

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

I've posted proto-0.4.6.zip
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19015
The changelog is below.

I'm not going to build installers for 0.4.6 until next week. If any problems
are found with the .zip distribution between now and then I'll update it to
a 0.4.6.1 release.

I would be very interested to see other examples of user-defined dialogs
using GenericDialog.

ka
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Release 0.4.6 2001-10-30
added FindDialog to textEditor sample to show use of GenericDialog
  class for user-defined modal dialogs. the user-defined FindDialog
  mimics the look and behavior of the FindDialog in dialog.py
added GenericDialog class (dialognew.py)
fixed _translateFont bug that was returning the wrong font family
  when using the Font dialog
removed textEnter event
  pressing return in TextField or PasswordField should now be the
  same as pressing tab
  updated proof and searchexplorer samples
added modal FindDialog to dialog.py
  updated dialogs sample to show FindDialog
  updated addresses sample to use FindDialog, but didn't implement
  find logic to do the actual searching
added _used flag to Event class and associated methods to support
  proper use of skip with keyPress
added keyDown, keyUp, and keyPress events
added turtle.py module (AbstractTurtle and BitmapTurtle classes)
  updated turtle sample to use the new module
minor fixes to BitmapCanvas
added textEditor sample
converted samples launcher to use sizers
fixed CompactStack in textIndexer (thanks Patrick)

Re: [Pythoncard-users] release 0.4.6 zip

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Kevin Altis wrote:

> I've posted proto-0.4.6.zip
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19015
> The changelog is below.
> 
> I'm not going to build installers for 0.4.6 until next week. If any problems
> are found with the .zip distribution between now and then I'll update it to
> a 0.4.6.1 release.


Not a problem, but I've just updated the dbBrowser sample to use a modal 
dialog for login. The sample has been updated to 0.3 and the changes are 
in CVS. There is no problem if we don't include it in this release, 
although it would be a shame not to. In the absence of any requests from 
the list my next task for this sample is to add support for Oracle 
databases. I may also slip in support for CSV files but they don't 
exactly provide the strong metadata that the application expects so the 
results may be dissapointing.

> 
> I would be very interested to see other examples of user-defined dialogs
> using GenericDialog.
> 
> ka
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[snipped release notes]
> 

Regards,
Andy
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RE: [Pythoncard-users] release 0.4.6 zip

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

> Kevin Altis wrote:
>
> > I've posted proto-0.4.6.zip
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19015
> > The changelog is below.
> >
> > I'm not going to build installers for 0.4.6 until next week. If
> any problems
> > are found with the .zip distribution between now and then I'll
> update it to
> > a 0.4.6.1 release.
>
>
> Not a problem, but I've just updated the dbBrowser sample to use a modal
> dialog for login. The sample has been updated to 0.3 and the changes are
> in CVS. There is no problem if we don't include it in this release,
> although it would be a shame not to. In the absence of any requests from
> the list my next task for this sample is to add support for Oracle
> databases. I may also slip in support for CSV files but they don't
> exactly provide the strong metadata that the application expects so the
> results may be dissapointing.

We'll just plan on doing another release. I've been meaning to add a menu
editor dialog to the resourceEditor sample and I may also modify the
resourceEditor to be able to edit a dialog as well. Right now, it doesn't
know that dialog rsrc.py files are of a different format because they aren't
complete stacks.

I never got any feedback on where to store dialogs resources and classes.
There is a lot of sense to just putting the dialog resources in the main
rsrc.py file, but I need to see how that complicates the current framework
resource loading, resourceEditor, etc.

ka