Re: [Pythoncard-users] Sizers and Layout

Kevin Altis:

> Neil actually did a demo that uses the .rsrc.py files to make a web page
> suitable for use in a browser, so the layout of PythonCard background can
> sort of be used as HTML. I thought Neil was going to check the files into
> cvs at:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pythoncard/proto/samples/
>
> but I don't see the files (Neil can you check them in?). The original
> message is:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pythoncard/message/397

   OK, Pyker.hta and PykerLaunch.hta are now in CVS. These are HyperText
Applications and work only on Windows with a recent version of Internet
Explorer. Similar work could be done in Mozilla with the Python interpreter
embedded although not too many people have this set up.
   Pyker.hta displays the PythonCard resource file given as a command line
argument.
   PykerLaunch.hta displays a list of resource files in subdirectories and
clicking on one displays it using Pyker.hta.

   While I don't intent to takes these any further, they are reasonable
demonstrations of the ability of browsers to produce diverse user
interfaces. It may be possible to turn this code into a PythonCard player
that hosts PythonCard applications inside browsers in a similar manner to
the current wxPython based host.

> Perhaps it might be best for Neil to go into this subject more when he
gets
> time or the framework stabilizes to the point that someone can experiment
> with this without having to update the files with every API change.

   The API resource file hasn't changed since Pyker was first written so
still works.

   Neil