Symbians is My World: Python for Symbian S60v3 /S60v5 1.9.7

Python for Symbian S60v3 /S60v5 1.9.7

Sunday, 15 November 2009 , Posted by .::PRIVACY::. at Sunday, November 15, 2009

Python for S60 brings the power and productivity of the Python programming language to the S60 platform.

Python for S60 (PyS60) brings the power and productivity of the Python programming language to the S60 platform. The tools enable rapid application development and prototyping, and the ability to create stand-alone S60 applications written in Python.

Requirements:

· v1.4.5: Symbian S60 2nd/3rd Edition
· latest version: Symbian S60 3rd/5th Edition

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

What is new:

· Touch support added for GLCanvas UI Control. Directional pad is displayed by default on touch enabled devices. A sample application - gles_touch_demo.py is added to ScriptShell which demonstrates the functionality.
· Two new APIs are added to canvas - begin_redraw and end_redraw. These can be used to instruct the window server to enable redraw drawing on the canvas UI control. Please refer the documentation (Section 3.1.10) for more details.
· The multi-selection listbox has been modified such that the dialog for the option 'checkmark' now has 'Options' and 'Back' as its left and right softkeys respectively. The 'Options' has Mark/Unmark entry that can be used to select and de-select respectively. The 'Back' softkey returns the current state of the listbox based on the selected items.
· 4-way directional pad support in landscape mode
· Different flavors of Scriptshell application can coexist on the device.
· Scribble application improvements: - Performance improvement by using API's begin_redraw and end_redraw. - The drawing area is retained between landscape and portrait modes as the toolbar shifts to accommodate for this change. - Pen width can be selected from a list of predefined values.
· PyS60 document is available online on maemo.garage Python 2.5.4 Documentation - 23rd December, 2008

Corrected defects:

· The compression type for the dll and exe files for Python is shown as Deflate instead of Byte-pair.
· Scrollbar visible afterwards, should not be there
· Multiple lisbox objects decrease scroll performance
· time.mktime() taking too much time to execute