I started to develop SPE when I was still using Windows back in 2002. By using Python and wxPython, I hoped SPE would run smoothly on all platforms. That was wishful thinking. Luckily the commun...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-i-am-going-to-talk-at-pycon.html
At the last Libre Graphics Meeting I met Igor Novikov , who is the lead developer of sK1 . sK1 is a vector graphics editor, just like Inkscape but with a different focus. While Inkscape is or...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2009/05/sk1-vector-graphics-editor-is-now.html
I'm working on AR, a python library for Blender , which might be interesting for ARchitects. It targets primarily Blender python scripters, not Blender end users. However non pythoneers might be ...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2009/04/dwg-support-for-blender.html
Would it not be nice if IPython could run inside the Blender terminal in such way that it will remember the namespace history in between sessions? Why IPython? It gives you auto completion, dee...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2009/03/resumable-ipython-inside-blender_31.html
A while ago I blogged about my winning coin design . As an architect and artist I have switched some years ago to free software. A lot of so called experts would tell me that is impossible. They ...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2009/03/free-software-python-coin-on-national.html
Blender did not provide an interactive shell by default in the past. This changed a bit with the Interactive Python Console of Campbell Barton (aka ideasman42), which is accessible from the scri...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2009/03/standard-python-console-inside-blender.html
PantoGraph is a prototype for a vector rendering engine, developed in python by Severn Clay Studio . This can be nice for architectural presentations. It is still beta, which means it gets quit...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2009/03/vector-rendering-with-blender-in-ubuntu.html
For a dutch text click here . Introduction The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition for which a selected group of architectural offices (unstudio , nox , ...) and art...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.html
If you need to give presentations with your laptop and you are running Ubuntu Hardy, you might find that the gnome-display-properties (System>Preferences>Screen Resolution) do not work out of the...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/06/howto-enable-dual-screen-setup-for.html
wxPython ships by default with the wx.MediaCtrl for very basic playback of music or videos. As I would like to do more advanced video manipulation, I was curious if I could use Gstreamer directly...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/03/howto-write-wxpython-video-player-with.html
Krzysztof Olczyk did a wonderful job by packaging SPE for Mac OS X. You can download it here: http://olczyk.krzysztof.googlepages.com/SPE.dmg He commented: > You can install now SPE in�...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/03/spe-packaged-for-mac-os-x.html
As SPE was being developed for more than a year in subversion, I thought it is time for a release again. This is a major bugfix release. It ships updated plugins and also some new features, espec...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/02/spe-084c-python-ide-editor-released.html
This post is deprecated as sk1 now has an official ubuntu installer: http://sk1project.org/modules.php?na...ts&product=sk1 So this is for archival purposes only: Igor, the icon king of Phatch ...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/02/howto-install-sk1-powerful-alternative.html
So SPE is up to date again. The Winpdb debugger now features autocompletion. It is looking for a new name , as most people associate win with Windows (while winpdb is being developed on ubuntu no...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/01/latest-wxglade-xrced-and-winpdb-in.html
The default location of your Desktop folder is ~/Desktop. You might prefer another location. If you by accident deleted the Dekstop folder, it will be stuck in your Trash folder as you can't put ...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-change-or-recreate-your-desktop.html
"Pymedia is a Python library for accessing and manipulating media files. It makes audio and video playback/creation a snap for even a newcomer to programming." There is a deb installer available...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-install-pymedia-on-ubuntu-gutsy.html
The latest version of SPE 0.8.4.b works very well in Ubuntu Gutsy. It is available through subversion . However the repository package is outdated, as it is still on 0.8.2.a What SPE needs to sol...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/10/spe-084b-works-fine-in-ubuntu-gutsy.html
...all landed in subversion (rev255). wxGlade and XRCed are taken from their repositories, so they might be bleeding edge. Thanks to Diaa Sami some issues on Windows are fixed (eg running files w...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/09/winpdb-122-wxglade06-xrced-018-5.html
I've uploaded the latest wxGlade cvs into the subversion repository of SPE.
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/06/latest-wxglade-in-spe-subversion.html
The last version of WinPdb debugger 1.0.9 has hit the SPE 0.8.4 subversion repository. What is now especially nice is that when you debug a python file from SPE, WinPdb remembers it when you hav...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/03/last-winpdb-debugger-109-in-spe.html
I've been working a lot on fixing SPE and upgrading it with the latest plugins. The winpdb debugger no longer fails and wxGlade crashes are history. Is that not great? Are you eager to try it out...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/03/spe-call-for-testers.html
I posted on the pyxides mailing list a prototype of a 'fold explorer'. A fold explorer is different from a class explorer as it shows the folding hierarchy of a document as a tree. Why? The aim...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/03/pyxides-brainstorm-fold-explorer.html
The default version of python on Edgy is python2.4 and on Feisty is python2.5 If you installed both versions of python and want to switch between them you have once to type this in a terminal: ...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-switch-between-python24-and.html
Today I switched on my laptop from wxPython2.6 to wxPython2.8 SPE seemed to work quite OK already, except: the bottom panel took too much place and was not draggable to a smaller size. After fixi...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/02/spe-now-works-on-wxpython28-and-how-to.html
If you want to have the latest version of SPE, use subversion which is very easy. (Subversion is a way for multiple people around the world to work on the same program. It keeps the changes that...
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-download-latest-spe-from_26.html