[PythonCE] Mini IDLE update and response.

[Michael Foord]

Ed Blake wrote:

>Good suggestions, and I'm glad this is helpful to someone.  I defiantly agree
>about having only one instance of a menu window.  I think it will be fairly
>simple to fix this behavior, I was just too lazy to fix it in this 'release'.
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>About the key bindings, all the general windows key bindings should already
>exist.  So ctrl-c,v,x,z,y should all work, shift selecting.  What would be
>nice is if I could bind some of the hardware keys to things like shift alt
>and control...
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Hello Ed (and Sebastian),

IdleCE gets better and better. On PPC2002 though - I can report that 
'standard' key bindings *do not* work. You get weird control characters 
isntead. Certainly in a normal Tkinter text  box the key bindings have 
to be done explicitly (I think ?).

Despite that - IdleCE is great, particularly with the reduced flicker on 
selection. Thank you.

Regards,

Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

>Tabs are an interesting question, I agree that spaces would be preferable for
>indention, but I am using built-in Tk methods to handle tabs currently so
>I'll need to re-write some code.  I already added some simple autoindention,
>adding a tab if the last char in the line was a colon.  I think I could setup
>a key binding for indent/dedent of a selection, I'll have to try and see.  I
>suppose I will work on indention next.
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>Lastly if you wanted to put this thing on the web somewhere I would not
>object.  I would suggest you wait a little while though, once I incorporate
>these changes into the program it will be much nicer and more usable.
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>Anyway thanks for the response.  I will try to keep improving this as much as
>I can, but others are welcome to play with/improve it too.
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>--- Michael Foord <mike at pcblokes.com> wrote:
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>>Hello Ed,
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>>is great - it's the first useful python app. for windows CE that I've 
>>seen - awesome. MANY MANY thanks for your work.
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>>It's been such a pain coding with pocket notepad !
>>I've noticed the problem with selection as well - I guess it's a problem 
>>with the WinCE port of Tk. The best you can do is fix the keybindings to 
>>the cursor keys, so that selection can be done with the shift-arrow 
>>keys. Maybe even implement ctrl-something-or-other to select a block at 
>>a time !
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>>Anyway - I have a bit of a wish list for IdleCE. *Mainly* related to key 
>>bindings, but not entirely. If you could bear these in mind, I would be 
>>personally very grateful.
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>>In order of importance :
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>>max 1 edit and file menu open at a time
>>key bindings to ctrl-c, ctr-x, ctrl-a, ctrl-v, ctrl-s (copy, cut, select 
>>all, paste, save)
>>Also shift-<arrow keys> for selection
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>>tab for indenting selected area
>>ctrl-[ and ctrl-] for indenting/unindenting selected area
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>>tab is four spaces rather than tab
>>(and/or a spaces to tabs/tabs to spaces option)
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>>comment in/comment out areas - with key bindings
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>>As I said though... I already use IdleCE and am grateful for your work. 
>>Do you want this put online somewhere ? Contact me off-list if you do.
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>>Regards,
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>>Fuzzyman
>>http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
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