[IronPython] Eventhandling in the IDE: Who is the audience?

[Dino Viehland]

This is great feedback and I've added it to a designer TODO list.  I'll spend some time in the (hopefully near) future going through and improving the designer experience.  If you have any other thoughts on things we should do in that space (or shouldn't do :)) I'd love to hear it and I'll add it to the list.  Thanks!

From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Hank Fay
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:58 PM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: [IronPython] Eventhandling in the IDE: Who is the audience?

In VB, eventhandling can be done by switching to the "partial class", selecting the object in the left dropdown at the top of the editor, and then selecting the event in the right dropdown.  The function gets created, and of course in VB uses Handles in order to connect the event-handler.

This is a style of working with events that is familiar with at least a hundred thousand VFP programmers who have been stranded by MS, and are looking for a way into .Net.  And I believe it's familiar with the million plus VB programmers who have not made the switch to .Net (the last figure I read was over 2 million, but that was nearly 2 years ago).

I would make the argument that this way of working is straight-forward, involves less typing, and allows clearer thinking: the same kinds of arguments made for Py in general and IPy in particular.  I can create a framework that makes working with data, and the IDE, easy for users, and straight-forward in a way that will be familiar to VFP developers -- and am doing so (open source fwiw), hence my special interest in making the rest of the development experience as familiar as possible.

So, this is a request.  I'll have others, but much of what I need is already in the plan (working with VSX in Python is huge, btw, so thanks in advance for that one).

thanks,

Hank Fay
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