>  I've been unhappy with the sample screenshots pages for a long time. Not
>  only are a lot of the images old, but the descriptions of each sample is
>  often brief and it has been so long since the pages were updated that most
>  of the samples aren't even included.
> 
>  http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples.html
> 
Yeah, doesn't the web suck? :-)

>  Last night I wrote a script to take the existing readme.txt files from
each
>  sample and stick each readme.txt into an HTML template, along with some
>  screen shots. A word wrap function is applied to the text along with a URL
>  substitution before the text is stuck into a <pre> block in the HTML. The
>  whole generation and upload is automated, so it should be easy to adapt
the
>  HTML template as well as add more screenshots or expand the pages to
include
>  an Also see section, key concepts or components covered by the sample,
etc.
>  I will be making new screenshots for all the samples, uploading them, and
>  regenerating the pages over the next few days.
> 
>  I've uploaded the first pass which includes a very simplistic table of
>  contents. Should the contents use a frame like Dan did for the dialogs
>  documentation?
> 
Either that or simply repeat the TOC in each sample page. Probably
whichever's easiest to automate, I would think. Random access would
certainly be helpful. I'm not fond of frames myself, though I have customer
who swear by them.

>  http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples/
> 
Nice enough for a first cut.

>  HTML and page design are not really my thing, so if anyone has suggestions
>  for improvements let me know. I will be checking the script and templates
>  into cvs soon. I would be happier if someone else took care of this stuff,
>  so maybe this will get the ball rolling in that direction.
> 
Maybe. I'd offer my own services if I weren't buried with PyCon. I hope the
PythonCard/wxPython community is going to be out in force, recruiting
developers and explaining their technologies.

>  The sample pages should hopefully give people a better idea of what
>  PythonCard comes with that could be useful even if you don't want to do
much
>  programming as well as give people ideas about the types of things they
>  could do. So, it qualifies as marketing and as such should look a little
>  nicer than my simplistic attempts.
> 
Right.

>  ka
>  p.s. There is a small bug with the wrap function which is why sometimes
>  you'll see text in the readme such as:
> 
>  For more information
>  see:
> 
>  instead of
> 
>  For more information see:
> 
>  That should get fixed soon.
> 
> 
Not a biggie in an alpha presentation. Nice to be in touch.

regards
 Steve
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