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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 22:17:42 +0100 From: Dietmar Schwertberger <maill...@schwertberger.de> To: wxglade-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [wxGlade] Development preview and further development of wxGlade Hi! Please be invited to download the branch DEV_DS_2016 either from the repository or from the download page. The download page is at: https://bitbucket.org/wxglade/wxglade/downloads?tab=branches This is not yet a release, but more a preview of the things to come. Anyway, it's ready for use and the file format is compatible to release 0.7.2, but it has mainly been tested on Windows. The user experience is in many aspects smoother now, I think. The Tree and Design window have now full support for Drag & Drop and better support for Clipboard. Especially, almost everything is editable in the Tree window and Sizers and Slots are visualized, including empty slots and sizer/slot direction. Python 3 and Phoenix are supported. When you run wxGlade with Python 3 and Phoenix, the generated code should be Phoenix compatible. If you run the older versions, it's compatible to those. The menu editor has been modified. The toolbar editor will follow (this will also include support for controls, not just tools). Under the hood even more has been changed to make things more understandable and maintainable. There's still a lot to do there, though. Please have a look and provide feedback. Before a proper release can be made, I need to adapt the automatic testing to the new code. My plan is to do this until beginning of January. On bug reports I try to fix things as fast as possible and then send a notice to download the update. I don't plan to provide e.g. an installer, as you probably know how to run a Python script. (From Friday to Sunday I will be offline this week, so reaction time will be slow then.) The documentation is outdated now. I'm working on an updated tutorial, but of course contribution is welcome, as I'm not the best writer. As existing user, you probably will find your way. In my experience, nobody reads a manual. So the existing manual probably will not be updated, except there is a volunteer for it. If a manual for use is required, then probably the application should be updated instead. *My request to you:* I can't do each and everything on my own. This is a spare time project, but my main motivation is to support use of Python in corporate environments. Currently too many people are held back to switch e.g. from Visual BASIC 6 (yes, really) to Python as the learning curve for GUIs is too steep. So, the target audience includes users without any wx experience. (The reference for this is Visual BASIC 6, where you could teach anyone with BASIC knowledge within a few minutes how to implement a simple input/output mask and to link it to the code.) For this reason, my focus is on Python and Windows (as I also have to use and maintain some C extensions). Support for other languages like C++ or PERL can only be maintained if people are there to contribute, as I have almost not used these for 20 years now. For non-Windows platforms, it would be good to have testers, at least before each release. When it comes to things like priorities of new features and deprecation of old ones, it would be nice to have some people to discuss this. I don't want to decide each and everything myself. For new features I may ask for contribution and just direct you to the locations where the work needs to be done. So, the purpose of the preview and this message is to convince you that things are moving forward and to motivate some people to contribute ;-) Once a proper release is closer, I will also ask on the wxPython mailing list. Regards, Dietmar -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl Squirrel Consultancy Exloo, the Netherlands http://www.squirrel.nl http://johan.vromans.org PGP Key 1024D/1298C2B4 http://johan.vromans.org/pgpkey.html ----------------------- "Arms are made for hugging" ------------------------
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Hi! Please be invited to download the branch DEV_DS_2016 either from
the repository or from the download page. This is not yet a release, but more a preview of the things to
come. Anyway, it's ready for use and the file format is compatible
to release 0.7.2, but it has mainly been tested on Windows.
Under the hood even more has been changed to make things more
understandable and maintainable. There's still a lot to do there,
though.
On bug reports I try to fix things as fast as possible and then
send a notice to download the update. I don't plan to provide e.g.
an installer, as you probably know how to run a Python script.
The documentation is outdated now. I'm working on an updated
tutorial, but of course contribution is welcome, as I'm not the
best writer. As existing user, you probably will find your way.
My request to you: This is a spare time project, but my main motivation is to
support use of Python in corporate environments. For this reason, my focus is on Python and Windows (as I also
have to use and maintain some C extensions). Support for other languages like C++ or PERL can only be
maintained if people are there to contribute, as I have almost not
used these for 20 years now.
So, the purpose of the preview and this message is to convince
you that things are moving forward and to motivate some people to
contribute ;-)
Regards, Dietmar
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