[Edu-sig] PyCrust

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Kirby,

Thought I would chirp in here and let you know wxPython does not work on Mac
OS X -- yet. It's a work in progress. I do know it's being worked on though,
and I'm pretty sure wxPython for Mac will sport it's Aqua interface when its
all done. =)

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirby Urner" <urnerk@qwest.net>
To: <pobrien@orbtech.com>
Cc: <edu-sig@python.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 6:33 PM
Subject: [Edu-sig] PyCrust


>
> OK, didn't take long to install.  Had to get
> wxPython, for which I didn't find an installer
> for 2.2.  Probably easy enough to do that, but
> I'm with 2.1 now.  Your PyCrust installer
> helpfully found both installations -- I picked
> 2.1 (BTW, does wxPython work on Mac? -- seems
> PyCrust blurb say yours does, yet wxPython page
> mentions only Windows, POSIX -- which I guess
> includes OSX).
>
> So I have PyCrust open, and it does the shell
> mode fine.  I like the tips.
>
> I gather there's no builtin program editor ala
> IDLE.  I should use Scintilla or something like
> that?
>
> Any way to change default colors?  I'm used to
> the IDLE color scheme and/or would like the
> returned values ("computer types...") to be a
> different color (like blue).
>
> The response seems pretty snappy on the whole.
>
> One thing that's cool about IDLE is if I have
> a multi-line function or class defined at the shell
> prompt, I can scroll back and click on any of these
> lines to get a full copy of the whole function or
> class -- which I may now edit/revise.  Having only
> a single line copy down doesn't allow easy re-editing.
> If I use copy/paste, I can get multiple lines, but
> the interpreter seems to only recogize the last
> one.
>
> Maybe there's something planned around line numbers
> (on the left) that'd let me do this.  If there's
> a way to turn the line numbers off, that'd be cool
> too, as they haven't a lot of meaning to me in shell
> mode, the way I think about it today anyway.
>
> Not finding a lot of docs (or any, yet), so maybe
> I'm not booting pyCrust the best way.  I open DOS
> box and go ..\python pycrust.py
>
> I could convert that into a PIF, or else there's
> the option to use the .pyw extension.  Lemme try
> renaming pycrust.py to pycrust.pyw and booting it
> by clicking in the file manager...
>
> Yeah, that works (had to change the file association
> from python22\python to python21\python -- not a
> problem).  Note:  the blinking cursor after the
> prompt doesn't appear on its own when booting.
> I have to click in that window, then it shows after
> a second or two.
>
> Kirby
>
>
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