I'm sure everyone is tired of hearing about the Life sample, but if you are
using it you should appreciate this. BTW, if you aren't updating from cvs
and are just using release 0.6.9, you can still download the files directly
from:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pythoncard/PythonCardPrototyp
e/samples/life/

If you would like to update from cvs, you might want to read:

http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/PythonCardCvs


Here's the quote from the life readme.txt about the lexicon:

"
On 2002-12-18 I added a Lexicon window which will be displayed if you copy
Stephen Silver's lexicon.txt file into the life samples directory before
starting up the life sample. There are over 780 definitions and patterns in
the lexicon, so I highly recommend you download it. The INTRODUCTION and
BIBLIOGRAPHY are listed with the rest of the definitions and patterns. The
Lexicon home page is:

http://www.argentum.freeserve.co.uk/lex_home.htm

And you can download the zip file that contains lexicon.txt directly at:

http://www.argentum.freeserve.co.uk/lex_asc.zip
"

What is sort of cool is that the lexicon.txt file is auto-parsed when the
application starts up to build the dictionary of definitions and patterns.
That way as the lexicon is updated, there aren't hundreds of special data
files, .lif files, etc. to update, just the lexicon.txt file. As an
experiment I switched the description field to use an HtmlWindow. I still
haven't written the sizer code, so the larger blocks of preformatted text
are a bit awkward to read, but it seems to work okay.

ka



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