Re: [Idle-dev] walkthrough/snapshot of IDLE user interface improvements to date

2015-09-02 Thread Chris Roffey
Dear Mark This is excellent! It is humbling to see how much work is done by a dedicated few on IDLE development. I have read through the document you linked to and found it very interesting. Ensuring IDLE looks professional and natural on all platforms is very important for students (the bigge

Re: [Idle-dev] walkthrough/snapshot of IDLE user interface improvements to date

2015-09-02 Thread Al Sweigart
Hi Chris. I believe Mark is working on getting IDLE to be able to use more native-looking widgets with his tkinter work. As for "style sheets", IDLE already has something similar to this with the customizable syntax highlighting. I have some loose ideas for how this could be improved, and I was thi

Re: [Idle-dev] walkthrough/snapshot of IDLE user interface improvements to date

2015-09-02 Thread Mark Roseman
Hi Chris, and thanks very much for the time and effort you put into sharing your thoughts and ideas. The kind of “sliding panels” you describe can be accomplished easily enough with Tkinter (even the older versions, without too much hassle). The bigger issue is teasing apart some of the monoli