I'm sending this on behalf of the PythonCard project. Enjoy. --- Patrick K. O'Brien Orbtech "I am, therefore I think." PythonCard is a software construction kit (in the spirit of Apple's HyperCard) written in Python. You can download the latest release at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19015 Samples included in the latest release: conversions, dialogs, findfiles, minimal, proof, searchexplorer, sounds, SourceForgeTracker, tictactoe, turtle, widgets, worldclock To see screenshots of some of the samples, visit: http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples.html PythonCard home page http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/ SourceForge summary page http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncard/ Mailing list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pythoncard/ PythonCard requires Python 2.1 or later and wxPython 2.3.x. wxPython is available at http://www.wxpython.org/ PythonCard relies on wxPython, it will support the Macintosh once wxPython has been ported to the Mac. PyCrust 0.5.2 PyCrust by Patrick K. O'Brien is included as part of the PythonCardPrototype releases. If you would like to find our more about PyCrust or get a separate distribution, please visit the home page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/ ---------------------------- Changes since release 0.3.1 (2001-08-07): The Property Editor is still only able to display widget attributes, you'll have to use the Shell to actually change an attribute. The Property Editor will work in the next release, and this time I mean it. :) Release 0.4.1 2001-08-16 updated debug.py and pycrustrc.py to support PyCrust 0.5.2 due to changes between PyCrust 0.5.2 and earlier versions you must use the latest version of Pycrust with PythonCard, which is included in the release .zip for convenience added 'border' attribute to TextField and its subclasses to support a 'none' wxNO_BORDER option. updated worldclock and test_widgets.py to show TextField with a border of 'none' used in place of StaticText added empty bitmap support. Image and ImageButton now use the Bitmap class rather than an explicit wxBitmap. the convention is that if the file is '' then an empty bitmap is created. see SourceForgeTracker for an example of the use of empty bitmaps if the layout doesn't look right on Linux or Solaris, you can use the SourceForgeTracker.original.rsrc.py file by renaming it to SourceForgeTracker.rsrc.py fixed worldclock and tictactoe samples to use Bitmap Release 0.4 2001-08-14 added components dictionary find/findByName, createWidget, and deleteWidget were replaced by a dictionary, so that widgets on a background can be accessed as: self.components.button1 see the samples for numerous examples of the new usage. widgets now use dot notation to access their attributes print button1.label # get button1.label = 'hello' # set This was a major revision to widget.py that also impacted many other parts of the framework, so if you have any samples of your own done with release 0.3.1 or earlier, you'll need to update your code. updated all samples to use the new dot notation all widget attributes that can only be set at initialization will now throw an AttributeError if you try and change them. for example button1.name = 'bob' is not legal so you get: 'AttributeError: name attribute is read-only' *** note that while updating all the widget attributes to dot notation I realized that we had never cleaned up the 'selected' attribute for List, RadioGroup, and Choice, so be aware that the name and behavior of 'selected' will probably change in the next release PyCrust is now included as a separate package numerous changes were made to the PyCrust shell, see the PyCrust docs for more information. fixed backgroundColor and foregroundColor in class Background the widgets sample has a button to change the backgroundColor to show off this fix. added pycrustrc.py files whatever python code is in these files will be executed when the shell is first launched. there is a default pycrustrc.py in the package directory. there is another example in the turtle sample directory. changed pythoncard.config.py added options to set the position and size of all the "debug" windows: Message Watcher, Property Editor, Shell added pythoncard.user.config.py this file will override pythoncard.config.py if it exists you should copy pythoncard.user.config.py and update the position of each window for your own screen dimensions; you can update the shell size too added defaultStackPosition option you can add a key:value line to pythoncard.user.config.py to override the stack position that a PythonCard app may or may not specify. The most common would be something like 'defaultStackPosition':(5, 5), to force the window to the top-left of the screen (I prefer this over (0, 0) myself. added 'Debug' menu if any of the 'debug' windows are requested when an application is started, then all of the windows will be created, but only the requested ones will be shown initially. you can choose the window name from the Debug menu to show/hide the window. added an About PythonCard... menu item to the Debug menu displays version numbers and PythonCard project info added SourceForgeTracker sample downloads XML from SourceForge tracker database to display Bug Reports and Feature Requests for the following projects: PyChecker, PyCrust, Python, PythonCard, wxPython. Additional projects can be added. added conversions sample does Fahrenheit <-> Celsius and English <-> Morse Code conversions with a generic framework, so other conversions can be added added tutorial.txt to docs applications can now use the .pyw extension if you don't want an application to have a console window, then rename the application to .pyw, but don't change the file reference in the .rsrc.py file, leave that as .py as an example, you can change worldclock.py to worldclock.pyw ka --- Kevin Altis altis@semi-retired.com _______________________________________________ wxpython-users mailing list wxpython-users@lists.wxwindows.org http://lists.wxwindows.org/mailman/listinfo/wxpython-users