John Gossman's observations on Avalon development
April 2005 - Posts
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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; using Read More...
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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, Read More...
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Adobe's investor site isn't responding, but Macromedia has the news too . Read More...
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Fil Fortes has been running a nice series on Avalon Text. Don't try this in your father's browser: http://fortes.com/work Read More...
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