[Idle-dev] my work plans

[Sean Felipe Wolfe]

I didn't parse this all, but happy to see more IDLE development on the way!
We'll fight our way out !!

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Mark Roseman <mark at markroseman.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to give a quick update on some of the things I’ve been
> working on in terms of IDLE UI improvements. Any comments or feedback
> appreciated.
>
>
> Short-term - incremental improvements to existing behaviours:
>
>   * (patch done) minor cosmetic updates to the editor window (#24750,
> #24745)
>
>   * (patch done) changes to make existing preferences and about dialogs
> non-modal (#24760)
>
>   * (patch done) modified about dialog to display credits, readme, etc.
> inline rather than launching further (modal) windows
>
>   * (patch done) mac-specific bug fixes to workaround problems in Tk
> (#24801, #24570)
>
>   * (patch done) centralize creation of ui components in a new ‘uifactory’
> module. This is now used by about/prefs (#24760), and soon others. This
> module will also be in charge of choosing to use ‘ttk’ or ‘non-ttk’ based
> components (#24759)
>
>   * (patch done) utilities to help with functional/integration testing
> across application via tkinter introspection/event generation (#24845);
> much more to come
>
>   * (in progress) replacement for simpledialog calls: adding ttk option,
> some behaviour fixes (e.g. #24812), displaying errors inline rather than
> launching another modal dialog; integrate in uifactory
>
>   * (in progress) ttk-based redesign of preferences+extensions dialog,
> when running Tk >= 8.5 (#24759, #24776, #24782, etc.)
>
>   * (in progress) ttk-based version of find dialogs, with minor
> enhancements
>
>   * (in progress) new ‘tkextras’ module, to centralize some of the small
> tricks, wrappers and workarounds that get used multiple places in the code
>
>   * (soon) make find dialogs non-modal, integrate with uifactory
>
>
> The next things I plan on having a look at:
>
>   * create a 'stand-alone' canvas-based tab widget (modelled after the one
> in textmate) to later be used as the ui to handle switching between
> multiple editors/shell within same window (#9262, #24826)
>
>   * separate UI of debugger from underlying internals (so ui can be
> attached ‘on the fly’), make it runnable as a frame (so can embed in
> toplevel or panedwindow), and improve UI
>
>   * menu handling, in particular enabling/disabling items according to app
> state (#24814 etc.)
>
>
> For others making or planning broad changes, the main thing to note of at
> this point is the ‘uifactory’ addition, as well as some of the module
> decoupling that’s happening as a result of other changes like making things
> non-modal. The functional testing pieces are early stages, but I hope it
> can fill in some gaps and also replace a subset of the manual ‘htest’ tests
> with automation.
>
> Mark
>
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