[Idle-dev] A little idea to improve IDLE visually.

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/11/2013 5:09 PM, Alexandre Boulay wrote:
> Maybe we could improve the efficiency of the scrollbar in IDLE :
>
>     - The line shows beginning of the class/definition.
>
>    - The dot shows the end of the class/definition.
>
> - The indentation (slice move on the right) of line/dot should represent
> the insertion of a subclass in a class

The is limited to about 4 indents, but I would be okay with that.
>
> - Showing where the definition or class begin
>
>     - When you have a very long text, you may want to see the structure
> of your code and its class.
>
>     - The thickness of the coloured lines must be reduced proportionally
> to the size of the scrollbar

But not below one pixel.

> I know that IDLE is configured whith TKinter so I don't know where the
> modifications will happen.

I am interested in this. Please share the code either on a tracker issue 
or here (where I can copy it).

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Terry Jan Reedy