[Dev] Dabo, Wax, others?

[John Anderson]

The debug version now logs uncaught exceptions in a pop up window, so we 
can fix them. Currently I don't think there are any outstanding bugs of 
this sort left.

Heikki Toivonen wrote:

>>Wax: http://sourceforge.net/projects/waxgui or maybe
>>http://zephyrfalcon.org/labs/dope_on_wax.html
>>    
>>
>
>Just had a brief look at the 5 points why this is better than plain
>wxPython, and one of the items looks like it could address one of our
>core concerns, namely wxPython eating exceptions. I quote:
>
>3. Easy setting of exception hook: in the main frame of the application,
>you can set a magic method named __ExceptHook__, which deals with
>uncaught exceptions. For example (code from examples/excepthook1.py):
>
>from wax import *
>
>class MainFrame(Frame):
>    def Body(self):
>        self.AddComponent(Button(self, "one", event=self.OnClick))
>        self.Pack()
>    def OnClick(self, event=None):
>        # deliberately create an error
>        x = 1/0
>    def __ExceptHook__(self, exctype, value, traceback):
>        dlg = ErrorDialog(self, exctype, value, traceback)
>        dlg.ShowModal()
>        dlg.Destroy()
>
>app = Application(MainFrame)
>app.MainLoop()
>
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