This just showed up on edu-sig. Is the translator and viewer separate enough that we could just send it to this person? Laura In a message of Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:56:12 EDT, "Douglas S. Blank" writes:

Python edu-sig,

I've been thinking about a visual programming/flowchart interface for Python and was wondering if anyone knows of such a project. I am imaging a Tkinter canvas (initially) with which one can add blocks that represent statements, branches, loops... everything. Further, I imaging that this would save (and load) real Python code, so that you could suck in raw code, it would get parsed, and shown as a flowchart. Maybe some additional data would be stored in comments (zoom amount, positions/colors/properties of particular boxes). Also, one could step through the chart, block-by-block.

I've seen some commercial (and open source/non-Python) products, but they seem heavy and sluggish, as if a whole lot of processing is going on behind the scenes. Is/would it really be that hard?

Any pointers or comments appreciated,

-Doug

-- Douglas S. Blank Computer Science Assistant Professor Bryn Mawr College (610)526-6501 http://cs.brynmawr.edu/~dblank

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