Hi, 2008/11/11, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It has been suggested that python would be an appropriate language, > because it's available both on the n800 and Debian, and is probably > fairly compatible between them.
I fully agree. It's very compatible between n800 and Debian. > (a) What library(ies) should I be using for user-interfacing. Are they > reasonably compatible between Debian and maemo? Take GTK. It's the native toolkit library of maemo and the GNOME desktop (or XFCE) on Debian. > (b) Are there a ready-made text-editing widget I can start with? The > complete structured text will contain a lot of reasonably small sub-texts > that can be edited conventionally, at least in the prototype. So I'd > like to prototyoe it with a ready-made editor handling the smaller pieces > of text (currently the pargest such piece is about 25K) ans saving the > structural part for the regular UI library. GtkTextArea might the widget you're looking for. > (c) Any problems you can already see coming, based on experience with > these tools? (Here I'm not looking for generic software-engineering > advice, but I'd like to know if there are any specific gotchas involving > python or the recommended libraries. I've been programming for decades, > but not in python). Toplevel window handling is a bit different between Debian and maemo. But code can be written to use the appropriate way on each system. So your code will run on both systems unaltered. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
