Re: Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

2009-01-23 Thread r
On Jan 16, 1:55 am, Terry Reedy wrote: > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here, but "About Idle" in Python > > 2.6.1 (win32) says "Tk version: 8.5" As to Tk, i was referring to Themes. I may have the versions mixed up but the newest TK supports themes and i would love to get that support i

Re: Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

2009-01-16 Thread Terry Reedy
Tim H wrote: r wrote: On Jan 14, 4:43 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: OFF-TOPIC:(but related) What is the state of Tkinter at this point. Is an active effort under way to port TK 8.5 into Python? Tkinter and IDLE are very important to Python, but i understand there are much more important areas where

Re: Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

2009-01-15 Thread Tim H
r wrote: On Jan 14, 4:43 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: [snip] I think the 'main' IDLE maintainer is no longer active. I think someone who would do more than fix critical bugs might be welcome. Hello Terry, That's what i was beginning to think. I am not quite ready (as far as my skills are concerned

Re: Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

2009-01-14 Thread Terry Reedy
r wrote: On Jan 14, 4:43 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: [snip] I think the 'main' IDLE maintainer is no longer active. I think someone who would do more than fix critical bugs might be welcome. Hello Terry, That's what i was beginning to think. I am not quite ready (as far as my skills are concerned

Re: Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

2009-01-14 Thread r
On Jan 14, 4:43 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: [snip] > I think the 'main' IDLE maintainer is no longer active.  I think someone > who would do more than fix critical bugs might be welcome. Hello Terry, That's what i was beginning to think. I am not quite ready (as far as my skills are concerned) to put

Re: Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

2009-01-14 Thread Terry Reedy
James Stroud wrote: r wrote: I actually like the IDLE, but it could use a few improvements. If anybody else has suggestions by all means post them. 1.) The text widget and the prompt(>>>) should be separated. Trying to write a conditional in the interactive IDLE is a real PITA. Not to mention i

Re: Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

2009-01-14 Thread r
Hello James, I actually want to trash IDLE and start over. I would be willing to do a complete re-write. I have already made a template GUI that works (early stages). I am wondering if anyone else might be interested in taking this on with me? IMO IDLE is full of fluff where it should not be, and t

Re: Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

2009-01-14 Thread James Stroud
r wrote: I actually like the IDLE, but it could use a few improvements. If anybody else has suggestions by all means post them. 1.) The text widget and the prompt(>>>) should be separated. Trying to write a conditional in the interactive IDLE is a real PITA. Not to mention if you copy the workin

Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

2009-01-14 Thread r
I actually like the IDLE, but it could use a few improvements. If anybody else has suggestions by all means post them. 1.) The text widget and the prompt(>>>) should be separated. Trying to write a conditional in the interactive IDLE is a real PITA. Not to mention if you copy the working code snip