Hildon Python plug-in IDE

pyphantom is an IDE intended to help developers to create python plug-ins for Hildon Desktop. It is completely developed in python and it is based on pygtk and libhildondesktop.

This is a follow up to the Hildon Desktop
Portability tutorial.

First thing is to export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
like this:

vern@N800-hacker:~$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/maemo/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig

then add the python related distribution
packages:

vern@N800-hacker:~$ sudo aptitude install python python-dev python-gtk2 python-gtk2-dev   python-gobject python-gobject-dev

then build and install the Hildon
Desktop python support module:

vern@N800-hacker:~$ svn co https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/python-hildondesktop
vern@N800-hacker:~$ cd python-hildondesktop
vern@N800-hacker:~$ ./autogen.sh
vern@N800-hacker:~$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/maemo
vern@N800-hacker:~$ make
vern@N800-hacker:~$ sudo make install

then check that importing these required
modules works ok:

import sys
import os
import traceback
import pygtk
import gtk
import gobject
import pango
import ConfigParser
import gtksourceview
import hildondesktop

like this:

vern@N800-hacker:~$ 
vern@N800-hacker:~$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May  2 2007, 16:56:35) 
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ConfigParser
>>> import hildondesktop
>>> ...and so on

then download pyphantom .
Run it like:

vern@N800-hacker:~/pyphantom/release-0.0.3$ python pyphantom.py

This is what the first release 0.0.2 looks
like:



















and here is the current 0.0.3 release:



















running a plugin which prints 'Ola Mundo!'
in the  Debug I/O.
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