I didn't parse this all, but happy to see more IDLE development on the way! We'll fight our way out !!
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Mark Roseman <m...@markroseman.com> wrote: > I just wanted to give a quick update on some of the things I’ve been > working on in terms of IDLE UI improvements. Any comments or feedback > appreciated. > > > Short-term - incremental improvements to existing behaviours: > > * (patch done) minor cosmetic updates to the editor window (#24750, > #24745) > > * (patch done) changes to make existing preferences and about dialogs > non-modal (#24760) > > * (patch done) modified about dialog to display credits, readme, etc. > inline rather than launching further (modal) windows > > * (patch done) mac-specific bug fixes to workaround problems in Tk > (#24801, #24570) > > * (patch done) centralize creation of ui components in a new ‘uifactory’ > module. This is now used by about/prefs (#24760), and soon others. This > module will also be in charge of choosing to use ‘ttk’ or ‘non-ttk’ based > components (#24759) > > * (patch done) utilities to help with functional/integration testing > across application via tkinter introspection/event generation (#24845); > much more to come > > * (in progress) replacement for simpledialog calls: adding ttk option, > some behaviour fixes (e.g. #24812), displaying errors inline rather than > launching another modal dialog; integrate in uifactory > > * (in progress) ttk-based redesign of preferences+extensions dialog, > when running Tk >= 8.5 (#24759, #24776, #24782, etc.) > > * (in progress) ttk-based version of find dialogs, with minor > enhancements > > * (in progress) new ‘tkextras’ module, to centralize some of the small > tricks, wrappers and workarounds that get used multiple places in the code > > * (soon) make find dialogs non-modal, integrate with uifactory > > > The next things I plan on having a look at: > > * create a 'stand-alone' canvas-based tab widget (modelled after the one > in textmate) to later be used as the ui to handle switching between > multiple editors/shell within same window (#9262, #24826) > > * separate UI of debugger from underlying internals (so ui can be > attached ‘on the fly’), make it runnable as a frame (so can embed in > toplevel or panedwindow), and improve UI > > * menu handling, in particular enabling/disabling items according to app > state (#24814 etc.) > > > For others making or planning broad changes, the main thing to note of at > this point is the ‘uifactory’ addition, as well as some of the module > decoupling that’s happening as a result of other changes like making things > non-modal. The functional testing pieces are early stages, but I hope it > can fill in some gaps and also replace a subset of the manual ‘htest’ tests > with automation. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > -- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. - Abraham Maslow
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