A new version (1.5) of Lightning Compiler has been released. It is now possible to "drag" a file (icon) and "drop" it in the editor window. The text of the file will be automatically imported to the editor window. This option has been added following a suggestion. Since I believe that it fitted well with the philosophy of L.C. as a quick-and-painless testing tool for Python scripts, I decided to implement it (which was surprisingly easy, thanks to wxPython!)
Feel free to suggest other useful options. :-)
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The CheeseShop entry looks a bit bare. Did you do "setup.py register" and then leave it there? Because my experience is that you need to fill things in a bit more.
Thank you Tim. It was a bit bare indeed. It was perhaps a bit too much like the CheeseShop skit of Monty Python!
Thanks for a great little app!
I agree with your design goals, and please keep it lightweight and one file. Here are my small wishes:
1) I actually prefereed the side-by-side view you had first. Would it be possible to provide a constant (setting) in the file that can be easily modified by user? As a widescreen user I have more free space sideways.
2) In fact, moving such things as initial screen size and other view/handling settings up as constants in the beginning of the file would simplify any "personalisation" without having to understand the code.
3) I changed the "faces" to suit my font preferences, but this only works for editor. If I change the font, it is because that is how I prefer to view all my Python code. Could you make that font the default for interactive shell as well?
4) Could you have a "Run As" button or something that allows simple input of runtime arguments? Remember the last arguments entered in that session so I don't have to enter it for a re-run.
Anonymous:
If these are small wishes, I'd hate to see what big ones would be! ;-)
These are good suggestions, and I will try to implement them all. The only potential problem I see is with the fourth one. Since the code is run via the "exec" command, it does not have access to the environment (via import sys, etc...). I have an idea as to how to "fake it" but it will likely require modifying the user code (perhaps just a single line) to make it work.
As usual, I'll make a post to this blog when I get the changes done.
I'm new with Python programming, can u help me to describe the step to implement drag and drop in python and also what tools that I need to implement it. thx for ur help
ratih:
I used wxPython as a GUI library. wxPython has support for drag and drop applications. wxPython has a comprehensive set of examples/demos which would answer your questions. However, if you are new to Python programming, you may find that learning to use a library like wxPython can be difficult. I have not used it for over a year myself and can't really help anyone with it.
thx for ur answer Andre
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