As Bogdan
Jul 252009
Hi, I was wantng to make a program. I want to do a little of it in C# and Java and possibly other parts in C, python, and perl. But I don’t know if there is a way to make all of these programming languages “talk” with eachother and call methods and get returned values. [...]
Each of of these stylish iPhone cases is handmade from leather and there are a couple of different versions available including a funky python print.
We (me and my fellow champion Bogdan Galiceanu ) are working with the guys at Symbian Foundation to come up with a new book for Python enthusiastics. We already have great PyS60 community and it can only get better I hereby take the oppurtunity of inviting folks interested in PyS60 to get involved with the development of this book. As of now, we have a table of contents on the Symbian Wiki . You can contribute to the development of this wiki book by, Suggesting changes to the contents of the book Writing one or more of the sections they propose Reviewing sections of the book as it takes shape. Once the Wiki book is ready in good shape, we would submit it as a manuscript for copy editing and typeset. The book would then be released as an eBook ( like the Demand Paging title ). The wiki copy will live on so that updates can be made and transferred into the eBook regularly. If you are interested to contribute or review some topics (or just give some feedback), drop me an email at pankaj.nathani(AT)croozeus.com – please do mention the topics that you are interested in and what content you wish to contribute. Writing will commence very shortly! For more information and updates on Symbian’s books, read the post on the Symbian Blog by Satu McNabb , editor in the Symbian Technical Communications team.
Apr 242009
As predicted here , PyS60 team releases one more PyS60 dot release in the series of 1.9.x releases. Some additions as below, and as said earlier, baby steps are always good. New features with PyS60 1.9.4 A single Nokia signed runtime package which can be installed on all S60 3rd ED and above devices is available.(size with dependencies=2.8MB, actual size if runtime ~1MB) Improved Application Packager : The PyS60 application packager now scans the Python application being packaged and picks up the missing Python modules on which the application is dependent and packages them along with the application files. Easier runtime deployment : Python runtime and its dependent components can be installed by just running any Python application packaged using 1.9.4 application packager. (Only available from S60 3rd edition FP2 devices onwards with latest firmware) Two new APIs added to the socket module – access_points() and set_default_access_point() which have similar functionality to the APIs present in btsocket module. Two new APIs added to e32 module – get_capabilities() and has_capabilities() . The former can be used to get the capabilities, the application has been signed with, and the latter to check if a given list of capabilities is granted to the application or not. New mode to appuifw.app.screen – ‘full_max’ which can be used to achieve fullscreen on devices that don’t have Left Soft Key and Right Soft Key(e.g.: Nokia 5800). May be few more dot releases should lead to a final product – PyS60 2.0 – pretty soon! You can download the release from maemo garage garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=854
Finally, PyS60 1.9.3 – now updated to Python core 2.5.4, one of the dot releases in the 1.9.x series has been announced less than an hour ago! Here is the list of improvements and what a list! Good news, the newer version now supports touch interfaces on the appuifw Canvas. An API has been added to the existing appuifw and the function – touch_enabled() is used for checking if the device supports touch input. Also a sample application – scribble – is provided with the installation. New module – sciptext makes PyS60 more poweful enabling/extending use of services like Application Manager, Calendar, Contacts, Landmarks, Location, Logging, Messaging, Media Management, Sensors and Sys Info. Easier installation – now only one file needs to be installed – PyS60 Script Shell (available from S60 3rd FP2 onwards).This should support all ensymble packaged applications in future releases. Enabled SSL support for socket. I believe that the above concrete list of enhancement in the PyS60 version is a Big leap forward towards 2.0 Long live PyS60! Download the latest release at garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=854
