pkgsrc/devel/boa-constructor/DESCR
wiz e7234675a4 Re-import devel/boaconstructor as devel/boa-constructor to match its
DISTNAME. While here, upgrade to 0.6.1, which (unlike the previous
version 0.4.4) starts with the current pkgsrc py-wxWidgets version.

* IDE translated and Internationalisation support for applications.
  * Translations available for:
    Afrikaans, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Italian,
    Spanish
  * IDE Language Chooser Dialog under Tools
  * Design time support for i18n _() strings in the generated source.
    See Examples/i18n/*
* New release binary format added for windows
  * Installs as a self contained exe
  * A python/wxPython installation is still required to run external
    scripts and the debugger
* Improved design time sizer/control creation:
  * Sizers and controls are now automatically linked up
    or added as sizer items when the sizers and control are
    created from the Palette on the Designer
* Command-line parameters added:
  * -U, -UnicodeEncoding, for setting the ide encoding without using
    sitecustomize.py
  * -W, -wxVersionSelect, for specifying a wxPython version
* New controls supported:
  wx.Listbook, wx.Choicebook, wx.Treebook, wx.Toolbook,
  wx.SearchCtrl, wx.ColourPickerCtrl, wx.FontPickerCtrl,
  wx.DirPickerCtrl, wx.FilePickerCtrl,
  wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl, wx.combo.BitmapComboBox,
  wx.animate.GIFAnimationCtrl, wx.media.MediaCtrl,
  wx.lib.flatnotebook, wx.lib.splitter, wx.lib.scrolledpanel,
  wx.lib.hyperlink, wx.lib.analogueclock,wx.lib.filebrowsebutton,
  wx.lib.throbber, wx.lib.ticker, wx.lib.dragscroller
* Basic support for Button Stock Ids
* Support for using wx.ArtProvider for bitmap properties in the Designer
  * When the file dialog opens from the property editor, set the
    Image Type to ArtProvider and click Open, the ArtProvider dialog
    will open.
* All help files now distributed as .htb help files.
  * Help updated to wxPython 2.8 and Python 2.5
  * wxPython api help included
  * All help files back in the repository and included in packages
* Code Templates added:
  * A Code Template is a small idiomatic snippet of code that can be
    selected from a popup list and inserted at the current caret
    position.
  * Code templates available for:
    * Boa: sys.breakpoint, customclasses, codetemplate,
      html document skeleton
    * Python: class, method, function, iterator, descriptor
    * wxPython: wx.ColourDialog, wx.FontDialog, wx.PrintDialogData,
      wx.PageSetupDialog, wx.DirDialog, wx.FileDialog,
      wx.SingleChoiceDialog, wx.TextEntryDialog,
      wx.MessageDialog, wx.FindReplaceDialog,
      wx.MultiChoiceDialog, wx.BusyCursor, wx.Locale, wx.AboutBox
* Code completion improvements
  * More local variables picked up from code
  * Option available: Preferences->General->Editor->importOnCodeComplete
    so that modules can be auto imported for introspection.
* Improved unicode source handling
  * Using the coding delaration if defined (# -*- coding: name -*- )
  * Handling for utf8 bom
  * Bugfixes
* Sizer improvements for GTK for the Find/Replace, InterpreterChooser,
  and ModuleFinder dialogs
* Tutorial updates
* SVN support added
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Boa Constructor is a cross platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI Builder.
It offers visual frame creation and manipulation, an object inspector, many
views on the source like object browsers, inheritance hierarchies, doc string
generated html documentation, an advanced debugger and integrated help.
Zope support: Object creation and editing. Cut, copy, paste, import and export.
Property creation and editing in the Inspector and Python Script debugging.