Here's my report on the PythonCard samples and their behavior under Darwin 
(OS X). This is really awesome stuff. I mean, none of this software -- none 
of it -- is in final release and yet an impressive portion of PythonCard 
samples run right out of the box. Now it gets to be fun for me!

addresses runs fine. The telephone fields are too small to show the number 
vertically

conversion runs fine

custdb runs fine as far as I can tell except for font problems. Delete does 
nothing (no confirmation dialog, no deletion). On both Mac and Windows, 
list of names on left doesn't update after a new customer is added unless 
you change the sort sequence and then change it back.

doodle launches and quits cleanly but nothing gets drawn on the canvas. The 
color dialog does come up as expected, however.

findfiles "Directories" label has a font problem; it's too large for the 
space allocated, so it gets cut off at the right. findfiles does not appear 
to understand sub-directories and clicking on a list of found items selects 
the entire list and has no launch effect (could be a launcher problem). 
Also, the text area where the found lines shows up doesn't grow a 
scrollbar. The app does properly create, remember, and load the grep file.

sounds, unsurprisingly I suspect, is silent but at least it launches and 
quits correctly and looks right.

stockprice won't run for me. I did download and install SOAPpy into 
site-packages but stockprice launches and quits without ever doing anything.

texteditor basically works but clipboard functions do not work at all. 
Kevin and I suspected this would probably happen.

I did not test textIndexer since it relies on ZODB, which I don't have on 
OSX and which I don't think even runs there yet. Probably never will.

tictactoe runs perfectly.

worldclock runs perfectly.

widgets launches fine. Font problems as usual. Main widgets and associated 
checkboxes work as expected except that the button when told to be 
invisible leaves a bit of a "ghost" behind. Tooltips work. Color stuff all 
works. Font stuff is limited (list of font options is quite small and not 
the names of fonts, but rather symbolic names) but that may be an OS X 
quirk. The calendar *looks* fine but doesn't operate at all correctly. 
Otherwise, things appear to be pretty close to correctly functioning.

dialogs works almost completely correctly except for font issues. I did 
notice a tiny quirk: if you use the file dialog and change the file types 
to be shown, any files that were visible in the file list at that moment 
are never enabled again. A real nit, obviously. Scrolled Message doesn't 
generate a text area with a scroll bar. You can use the keyboard arrows to 
move up and down in the text, however. Multiple Choice treats command and 
shift the same, making a discontiguous selection. On quitting Dialogs, 
Python crashed and that's 100% repeatable.

hopalong won't run and requires a force quit. I suspect the problem lies in 
the top portion of the window where parameters are to be entered. It never 
draws and the system just keeps thrashing.

resourceEditor launches and quits properly, at least with minimal 
stress-testing. I have to spend much more time with this one, obviously, 
but there are a few immediately noteworthy problems. Newly added components 
are not draggable; you have to set their size and location in the Property 
Editor. There are refresh problems but these appear in wxPython, so they're 
clearly not PythonCard issues. Shell doesn't launch. I'm sure there's more 
to come on this one.

samples launcher doesn't launch any apps. We think this is due to a 
not-yet-implemented aspect of wxPython.

searchExplorer works perfectly.

simpleBrowser launches and quits correctly but displays HTML rather than 
rendered HTML, so it can't be tested further.

turtle won't run but that may be because it's set to open with the shell 
and the shell isn't apparently compatible with the Mac yet.

Enough for the preliminary report. I'm going to go explore textRouter and 
other blog-related stuff and also work through the demos that come with 
wxPython.


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