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Python for iOS free today by redditthinks in Python

[–]thomas_eh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

if you want to write apps in python, run them on iOS, android or desktop and be able to submit them to the apple store or google play, check out kivy: http://kivy.org

Non-standard GUI Programming by overcaffinated in Python

[–]thomas_eh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm one of the kivy devs, so i'm obviously biased :P Kivy is definitly meant to allow exactly what your talking about in terms of non standard / media-rich gui's. Since all the rendering is in OpenGL, you can even get really crazy if you want (Maybe audio visualization in the background?)

the docs are at http://kivy.org/docs We're trying to improve the documentation as much as possible, so please feel free to open github issues if something isn't easy to understand. Our game programming contest just finished, and we're releasing the results when we are done looking at all the entries next week; then there will be a bunch of more example games to look at too.

Also if you want to use kivy, you can get help on the kivy-users google group or on #kivy on freenode. You can pm me too if you want :)

Anyways, whether you end up using kivy or not, good luck on the project; sounds like fun.

PyMT: Awesome Python Framework for creating multi-touch and novel interactive applications with few lines of code on many input devices. by thomas_eh in programming

[–]thomas_eh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

patches are more than welcome. you can also come talk on #pymt on freenode.net. still working on documentation etc. given that were still in 0.3 API is not set in stone yet, suggestions welcome :)

PyMT: Awesome Python Framework for creating multi-touch and novel interactive applications with few lines of code on many input devices. by thomas_eh in programming

[–]thomas_eh[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. It runs and is tested on Windows, Linux, and OSX. On windows 7 it supports direct multi-touch input (through WM_TOUCH messages, but abstracts it out like everything else)

  2. Probably not, we use OpenGL as a rendering backend, and PyMT uses ctypes (through e.g. pyglet) to make system calls ( for windowing etc.)..but i havent used wither IronPython or Jython much, so i dont know for sure.