wxGlade 1.0 planning and testing

Dietmar Schwertberger <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jul 2020 21:48:46 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.wxglade
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

Last weekend I have merged the branch SIMPLIFICATIONS into the master 
branch of the repository.
The modifications are a major refactoring of how the widgets in the 
Design window are created and destroyed.
My tests on Windows, Linux and mac OS were successful.

 From a user point of view there is not much difference, except for 
minor improvements. E.g. previously a button or label with a 
non-standard font would not have been sized correctly.
Behind the scenes, the changes are a major step forwards towards 
maintainability. Also, I think that with the changes it should be 
possible to finally implement undo/re-do with a version 1.1.

Please test your designs and platforms with the master branch. I expect 
some glitches...
Hold out for incorrect layouts or even crashes.

If the master branch is working for you, I would suggest to continue 
using it.


During the next two months or so I will work on some usability 
improvements, more automated tests and documentation updates.


If you don't understand the following sentence, you may just ignore it:

I have not yet finalized about how to handle Class / Base class / 
Instance class properties in 1.0. This might change a bit, but I think 
the current user interface is already much clearer than before where one 
property was used.

I probably will post another message to get some feedback on this.

Regards,

Dietmar