On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Kevin Altis wrote:

> Having a tool capable of building resource files for describing windows,
> menus, widgets is a good first step towards a PythonCard.

Glade does it. It describes resources in XML format.

I suggest to try to describe what are windows, cursors, menus, etc. from
object point of view. (that is to define classes).

For example (lets dream):

Button attributes:

primary:
ID
name
number
owner
script
content
icon
title (what is written/put upon it)
position == ((x, y), (x1, y1))
style
skin
family
visible
width
height

methods:
on()
off()
toggle()
part_number()
send()

What else?

script example could look like this:

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def on_mouse_click(target):
  target.toggle()

def on_mouse_double_click(target):
  target.owner.send(("mouse_click"))

# this is not for button:
def on_key(target, keycode):
  if keycode == " ":
    do_something()

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If we will have such descriptions for all PythonCard objects, it will be
half a job, because then we will be able to make mappings to differents
Tk's and (I think) is is relatively easy to provide usual drawing
capabilities to put/resize/move/delete objects.

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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