Broadening the discussion.

I guess my preference is to use Pippy for Python. The TA example is
just to get people interested in digging deeper. I think it would be
better to put effort into importing more of the TA environment into
Pippy than making TA yet another Python editing environment.

-walter

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Regarding alt-tab, the behavior I am familiar with is to use alt-tab
to cycle between all open activities and shift-alt-tab to reverse
direction.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:01 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I can import a Pippy file into TA, but:
>
> I would rather see python code typed directly onto a ta block, there may be 
> technical reasons why you prefer to import a file.
>
> (which reminds me of another issue i have with the sugar ui, when you alt tab 
> in windows you go to the last window, and can quickly swap between two apps, 
> in Sugar you dont and need to alt tab alt tab alt tab...)
>
>> (1) you cannot do much debugging inside of Pippy itself since you
>> don't have access to the lc (logo code) globals or the canvas.
>
> agreed the pippy ide is of little use here
>
>> (2) you must name your function myblock and pass it two arguments or
>> you'll get an error.
>
> no prob
>
>>
>> When actually running your code within TA, you can view the log file
>> to see any error messages, which is probably OK (this is how I debug
>> in the general case).
>
> it would be better if errors showed on the canvas, off the cuff i dont know 
> where to find the log, and would have to alt tab alt tab.. and refresh a 
> viewer to see if there were errors,
>
>
> thanks
>



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Walter Bender
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