I pushed v10 with the Pippy interface. Please give it a try. (Note
that for some reason, the Words activity seems to be the default for
text/x-python so you'll have to open tamyblock.py from the detail view
where the Pippy option is available.

-walter

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
> ----
>
> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>



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