ANN: PythonCard 0.6.8

[Kevin Altis]

PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop
applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Release 0.6.8 includes over 30 sample applications and four tools to help
users build applications in Python: codeEditor, findfiles, resourceEditor,
and textEditor. This release supports the new wxPython 2.3.3 preview for Mac
OS X. A list of changes since release 0.6.7 is at the end of this message.

All the information you need about PythonCard can be found on the project
web page at:
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/

The installation instructions and walkthroughs are available on the main
documentation page:
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

You can download the latest release at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19015

For a list of some of the samples that have been built with PythonCard and
screenshots of them in action go to:
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples.html
A description of each sample is included in the readme.txt file in each
sample directory.

The kind people at SourceForge host the project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncard/

If you want to get involved the main contact point is the Mailing list:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pythoncard-users

PythonCard requires Python 2.1.x or later and wxPython 2.3.2.1 or later.
wxPython can be downloaded at http://www.wxpython.org/

ka
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Kevin Altis
altis at semi-retired.com

--- changelog since release 0.6.7, 2002-06-14

Release 0.6.8 2002-07-17
added keyDown event to Tree
added itemFocused, mouseContextClick and keyDown events
  to MultiColumnList
moved flatfileDatabase.py module into framework so that
  it can be used by both the companies and flatfileDatabase
  samples
added clipboard flush when background is destroyed to
  preserve the clipboard
revised flatfileDatabase sample, added pickle support
added findString to util.py
added hack in the resourceEditor for Unicode string attributes
  when using a wxPython unicode build
added Fred Pacquier's fpop sample (in cvs, not release)
added companies sample
added file history to findfiles, resourceEditor, and textEditor
fixed close event bug in binding.py
added text and html/xml style support to codeEditor
added links to PythonCard documentation in the Help menus
  of the codeEditor, findfiles, and resourceEditor tools
updated Run options dialog in codeEditor to support
  optional args
added insertDialog.py scriptlet to codeEditor tool
removed the auto-shell loading to speed startup of apps
  the shell can be loaded manually with self.loadShell()
  codeEditor and textEditor tools updated to use loadShell
added appcomponents sub-package support when loading components
fixed ComboBox init so text attribute is set after 'items'
  and 'selected' attributes are set; text will override 'selected'
added Sort menu item to flatfileDatabase
updated runScript in codeEditor so it changes to the directory
  of the script being run and then back to the current dir
added "Allow any machine to connect" menu item option to
  the webserver sample
added -d command-line option to show the debug menu
  without showing any of the runtime windows
added HTML file support to slideshow sample
changed CodeEditor component to auto-load 'python'
  style configuration if available
changed samples launcher to use CodeEditor component
  for source and resource files
added Tree component