Tales from the Smart Client

I've been home sick for a few days. Between sleeps, generally pinned down by a cat, I've been fairly productive. I bought a couple of books: "Dive into Python" by Mark Pilgrim, and "Programming Python" by Mark Lutz, and installed ActivePython and IronPython...

The PythonProcessor class from my last post is designed to be hosted in an GUI text editor. I used an Avalon TextBox, as so: namespace AddInConsole { using System; using System.Globalization; using System.IO; using System.Text; using System.Windows;...

When I first got my Python host working, I could type expressions and they would run...but I couldn't see the output. I had to dig a little bit, but found that Python was sending its output to sys.stdout, which at startup is set to a PythonFile wrapping...

With the code below I could host an Avalon TextBox in my application, type Python expressions and see the results. What I still could not do (when I first finished the code) was execute code back in my application. I needed to give the Python code an...

http://myxaml.com/marcclifton/archive/2005/04/25/1938.aspx His comments are right on, a sensible end note to the more confrontationl tone of the thread he refers to. We struggled for a long time over somewhat conflicting visions of XAML: as a declarative...

I really enjoyed reading Mr. Hewitt's notes on Boxely , the new UI toolkit being used for AIM. The thought process he went through designing Boxely is very reminiscent of parts of my history with Avalon/XAML development. Like me, Joe is in the anti-CSS...

Fil Fortes has been running a nice series on Avalon Text. Don't try this in your father's browser: http://fortes.com/work

Adobe's investor site isn't responding, but Macromedia has the news too .