Re: PythonCE on Smartphone (WM6)
"Jorgen Bodde" <[email protected]>
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Hi Alexandre, It sounds very interesting. If you have a download available, please send me (or the mailinglist) a link! I'm still a newbie on the PythonCE platform, but I do know Python well for 2 years now so I hope I can use it to develop small apps rapidly for my mobile phone. Regards, - Jorgen On 10/18/07, Alexandre Delattre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I' am about to make a public release of PocketPyGui, an open source > toolkit that provides an abstraction level over the raw Win32 GUI api. > I tried to design its API for python developers with no prior knowledge > of win32 programming. > > For instance, one of its main benefit over its ancestor, vensterce, is > the transparent event handling that allow direct binding from signals > (button pressed, list selection changed, ...) to callbacks (any python > function that takes a single argument). Doing the same with VensterCE, > would need to understand well about the C way to do message dispatching, > handling, and would in some cases need to manually maintain a list of ID > for each controls which is quite static and unpythonic. > > The API also covers many controls : Button, Edit, Label, List (ListBox), > Combo, Table (ListCtrl in report mode), Tree (TreeView), NoteBook, > Progress (TrackBar), HTML, Date & Time control, Dialog, Font, ... I > tried to give each control a complete and intuitive interface, making > use of property and special methods where appropriate. Some controls > (Canvas & ScrolledFrame) are still in WIP but will be included as a > demo/tutorial. > > As a bonus, ppygui implements dynamic resolution detection and scaling > (meaning your app will appear the same on a hires or classic resolution > device without thinking about it), and automatic tab/jog-dial traversal > (but it can be explicitely deactivated for a Window). > > All that to say that, even if I don't own a Smartphone, I'm definitely > willing to make this kind of GUI abstraction for the next releases. Will > setup the smartphone emulator provided by MS for my tests ... > > Best regards, > Alexandre > > > > _______________________________________________ > PythonCE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce >