Smalltalk/ROSE-like prog. environment?

[Jason Cunliffe]

Bjoern

Yes. There are three free cross-platform tools I recommend you to look at
for deep and enduring inspiration:

1.  Boa Constructor
wxPython visual IDE in Python. It gets better all the time.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/Boa-Constructor/

2. KeyKit
object oriented midi programming toolkit with very interesting interface
also written in KeyKit's own oops script language. Brilliant fun stuff
http://nosuch.com/keykit/

3. PD [Pure Data]
object oriented Midi programming tool.. some very interesting ideas also
about how interfaces, data, object and message passing can and should work.
you could use PD for example to rapidly mockup the sort of system you would
like to see and then go about adapting it for python use. you might even be
able to use PD source for your widget set.
Hard to describe, but potent as soon as you use it. Simplicity of the
interface is part of its genius.
http://iem.mhsg.ac.at/pd/   [be sure to get GEL as well!]

good luck and please keep me posted on this topic

- Jason
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Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS['Interactive Art and Technology']
Bjoern Giesler <Bjoern.Giesler at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:90j2gg$kpf$1 at news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de...
> Hi,
>
> I have a dream... :-)
>
> I'd like to have a programming environment that allows you to do graphical
> OO design (UML, ROSE-like) with access to all classes a project consists
of
> (Smalltalk-like). This thing would allow the programmer to graphically
> design class interfaces and interactions, and edit method source code on a
> per-method basis. I.e. no editing-around in large .py files but working
just
> on the job at hand.
>
> This would have a couple of other nifty features: A test mode in which an
> exception is presented to the user in a dialog box that allows
modification
> of the code _while the program is running_ (this could be done with
> continuations, I believe) and stuff like that.
>
> This is a very hazy notion that has been floating around in my head for a
> while. I believe that Python would be the ideal language for this kind of
> application. Does anybody know of such an environment?
>
> If not, I'd like to give it a shot. Anybody have any ideas or want to
> collaborate with me?
>
> Regards,
> --Björn