Project management
A BlackAdder project is a simple entity: a
grouping of Python scripts and GUI form designs, and perhaps a
few extraneous files and folders. You start a project by
choosing from the
menu.
In this example, we create a project for the editor we
develop in Part III of this book.
After you have created the project, you
can add items to the project by choosing
-, or by creating new files.
Project files (ending in the
.bap extension) are saved by default in the
directory you started BlackAdder from. Using
-,
you can save your project file wherever you want.
The project explorer shows all files that
are part of your project, and all Python files that can be found
on the default Python path.
By choosing
- you can close your project again. If you
close BlackAdder and restart it, it will automatically open your
projects again. Every project has its own window in BlackAdder.
You can have more than one project open at a time, each in a
separate MDI window, and each with its own set of panes. (Again,
this is not a good example to emulate; see
Chapter 16 for a discussion of document/view
paradigms).