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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Gustavo,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2> Do you have a timeline for EVAS port? Ruby/EVAS bindings on Maemo would be a dream come true!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV id=idSignature76122 dir=ltr><PRE>Thanks,
David Weston
FGM, Inc
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> maemo-developers-bounces@maemo.org on behalf of Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 4/10/2007 3:23 PM<BR><B>To:</B> s060982@student.dtu.dk<BR><B>Cc:</B> maemo-developers@maemo.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: user interface like Canola<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>On 4/10/07, Xi Chen <s060982@student.dtu.dk> wrote:<BR>> Hi there,<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> Anyone who knows how to develop graphic user interface like Canola<BR>> <A href="http://openbossa.indt.org/canola/">http://openbossa.indt.org/canola/</A><BR><BR>I work at INdT and one of canola developers. :-)<BR><BR><BR>> Something like flash effects but I believe there must be some way to do that<BR>> in pygtk.<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> I'm new to gtk but familiar with python, any hint is welcome.<BR><BR>Doing that in pygtk is probably a no-go, even Gtk will not do that in<BR>a good way. You should go with SDL (python version is called PyGame,<BR>already provided by pymaemo).<BR><BR>See:<BR><A href="http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2007/04/03/pygame-smart-group-and-sprite-implementations/">http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2007/04/03/pygame-smart-group-and-sprite-implementations/</A><BR><BR>Doing that in sdl (C) is painful, because it's so barebones. Pygame<BR>have some nice utilities, like the pygame.sprite.Group (see my<BR>optimized implementation referred in that blog post).<BR><BR>We're moving our development to evas and edje, from enlightenment.org.<BR>They're not optimized yet (handles with 32bpp internally, while<BR>display is 16) but do perform better than GTK/GDK for our kind of UI,<BR>providing nice features. We're working with enlightenment.org<BR>developers to optimize it and it should run fine sooner than later.<BR>But no python bindings yet.<BR><BR><BR>--<BR>Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri<BR>--------------------------------------<BR>Jabber: barbieri@gmail.com<BR> MSN: barbieri@gmail.com<BR> ICQ#: 17249123<BR> Skype: gsbarbieri<BR>Mobile: +55 (81) 9927 0010<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>maemo-developers mailing list<BR>maemo-developers@maemo.org<BR><A href="https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers">https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>