[Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's save-before-runrequirement

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

Tkinter doesn't run on the Mac either, which means IDLE doesn't run on the
Mac (though, as Guido pointed out, there is an alternative). I'm not as
bothered by the fact that Scintilla isn't on the Mac as I am by the fact
that IDLE is intimately tied to Tkinter. Then again, I wonder how easy it
would be to "recreate" the same IDLE functionality with Scintilla. Since
Scintilla does so much cool text handling already, what else would have to
be added and how hard would it be to extract only the remaining pieces out
of IDLE? Wish I knew.

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech
"I am, therefore I think."

-----Original Message-----
From: edu-sig-admin@python.org [mailto:edu-sig-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of
Dethe Elza
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:18 PM
To: idle-dev@python.org; Python Edu SIG; Python Tutor
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's
save-before-runrequirement

on 01/6/20 11:43 AM, Patrick K. O'Brien at pobrien@orbtech.com wrote:

> I agree with that sentiment. While I also use Boa, PythonWin and VPython,
I
> still like IDLE and usually pop it up for interactive use. What I really
> want is the best of them all. I hate to see all these efforts recreating
the
> wheel. Of course, Boa and PythonWin both use Scintilla, although in
slightly
> different fashions.

And as far as I know, Scintilla hasn't been ported to the Mac, and possibly
other python-enabled platforms.

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--Dethe