RE: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard discussion at cmpnet.byte.joncon

> From: Ronald D Stephens
>
> Kevin, I just wonderd if you had seen the discussion goin on over
> at cmpnet.byte.joncon (under the "Confessions of a Corporate IT
> Director" thread)??? Below is one...

I just went to look at it, thanks for the pointer.

> For myself, I guess I am hoping for a killer hypercard like
> IDE..but I am willing to wait ;-)))
>
> Do you plan on using Boa Consrtuctor eventually? Or writing a new
> IDE?? or something else???

I don't think I'll be writing the PythonCard support for Boa, though Patrick
expressed some interest. I'm not particularly fond of code generators and
the Boa UI seems overly complex for doing simple apps. I think Boa is a good
tool for what it is designed to do, it just doesn't feel right to me for
PythonCard.

> For us braindead low IQ part timers, an easy IDE may be the most
> importnat thing...

A great IDE is absolutely essential once the framework is ready for it, we
just aren't there yet. Since we're also looking for an environment more like
HyperCard, I don't think that it will have the same feel and work flow as VB
or Delphi or Boa. Even SuperCard and MetaCard failed to capture the tight
integration and feel of developing in and using HyperCard; the HyperCard
experience is what I would like to achieve, but we may have to settle for an
edit/run cycle more like SuperCard.

What would other people really like to see?

ka
ps. We need a solid framework first, but we can do experiments via runtime
tools (Shell, Message Watcher, Property Editor) and samples (resourceEditor)
prior to having a full IDE.