[Pythoncard-users] an IDLE clone (PythonCard IDE, wxIDLE...)

After listening to Guido's talk about Python and CP4E I got inspired to but
together some background material links and topics relevant to an IDE for
PythonCard. Please respond to this thread with other links or relevant
issues. I don't know when we might pursue this, but it could certainly be
done in parallel with some of the other work Rowland and I have been doing.
If nothing else, this will make a good placeholder message to go back to
when the motivation fairy visits one of us.

There were a few threads back in August on wxPython-users about doing a
wxPython IDLE (wxIDLE) program.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/722717
Nothing seems to have come from that discussion; I think it ended up with
people wishing Riaan would do a Boa-lite, but he is swamped and isn't even
working on Boa as far as I can tell. Boa already has a lot of what people
want, but a lot of extra stuff too. Anyway, there is probably enough wxIDLE
interest that people not even interested in PythonCard would probably help
with the effort.

One Day of IDLE Toying
http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/index.html

IDLE home page
http://www.python.org/idle/

The IDLEfork  Project
http://idlefork.sourceforge.net/
This is the place for IDLE developers.

IDLE Documentation
http://www.python.org/idle/doc/
This is the most useful document I've seen for use as a spec. There is a lot
to be said for just duplicating the features and key bindings of the
tkinter-based IDLE, but using wxPython/PythonCard with wxSTC. The key would
be to not deviate from the IDLE spec on the first pass, so that it is a
straight coding effort without lots of design/redesign going on.

We already have the Shell component, we just continue to use PyCrust.


In the "six blind men describe the beast" thread, Neil Hodgson said:
   "Writing a small editor isn't all that hard. I don't expect the initial
version of an editor for PythonCard that handled the vast majority of needed
features would take long at all. You can get tied up in details though. The
biggest question to me would be how do you determine which files are part of
a PythonCard project and where within those files are the event handlers? Do
you do VB style file segmentation or just present the whole file to the
user?"

ka