On Tuesday 23 March 2010 09:40:01 am Paul McNett wrote:
> On 3/23/10 8:05 AM, John wrote:
> > It's easy to get confused - evidence my earlier mistake with Hide().
>
> We made a design decision early on to mix-in Dabo's interface with the
> underlying wxPython object. So it does get confusing because Dabo+wxPython
> equals a ton of names in the namespace.
>
> By keeping the naming conventions separate from wxPython's, we avoid
> overwriting wxPython's interface allowing the developer to call the
> wxPython-level methods.
>
> This is why there are sometimes two spellings of things: Hide() and hide(),
> for example. The former capitalized version is the wxPython function, while
> the latter is the Dabo function. Calling hide() will allow Dabo-level
> framework code to run in addition to the wxPython-level Hide() code.
>
> Paul


I completely understand and agree that it makes sense.  I know better but I 
still made the mistake.  That's why I asked for an icon in dShell (a tool I 
use often) to prevent making the mistake.   Of course I still drink and who 
knows what will happen even with the icons present :-)

Johnf

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