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The folks at Symban Foundation are calling for Python enthusiastics at SEE 2010!
If there are enough number of people expressing interest in Python, there might be a Python workshop or BOF session at SEE this time.
I’m polling for interest in attending a Birds-of-a-feather session or workshop on Python on Symbian (PyS60) at SEE.
As you may know, we’ll [...]

Some days ago I was asked about a PyS60 application that should support several bodies but without using tabs. The idea was to create a dynamic menu with an option called “Switch to” from which the user could choose the desired body.
After some frustrated experiences I wrote the following code for this special “Window Manager”. [...]

Nixie Watch is a software emulation of cool wristwatch seen in wrist of Steve “Woz” Wozniak, made using analog numerical tubes. Wish I had one, but had to settle for this… Looks good on my N97 mini - and as a bonus it also shows current time!
http://jouni.miettunen.googlepages.com/nixiewatch
Version 1.30, 2010-02-25
* New: Support PyS60 2.0.0
* New: Support [...]

The much awaited PyS60 2.0.0 development kit was released today. Since less than a month ago, PyS60 runtime started appearing in Software updates on S60 3rd edition FP2 devices onwards. This release is considered to be a stable release and has evolved since a year from the 1.9.x dot releases.
The development kit includes the following [...]

Touch Stick demonstrates how to code Touch UI device’s screen as a virtual joystick (5-way rocker key). It is sample code for PyS60 1.9.x developers and works on Nokia 5800 (at least).
Clicking on top horizontal blue bar works like pressing Up Arrow key, bottom horizontal bar like Down Arrow. In the middle there are three [...]

Got some time last weekend to write a very simple application “Py-World-Clock”. It’s time calculation is based on GMT Hours; user can view current time of any city around the world using this application. Py-World-Clock does not support daylight savings time calculation.
Hope it is useful to you.
Download it here.
Screen shots

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Sweet Memories is a memory card game for touch screen devices: find all pairs of same pictures. Works on touch screen devices with fingers (5800) and non-touch devices with keypad (N82).
http://jouni.miettunen.googlepages.com/sweetmemories

Requires PyS60 1.9.7
Support 3rd party picture files
Built-in: Sweet Mix (17 pictures), Flowers from Rovaniemi (20), Finnish traffic signs (41) and EU Flags (1 + 27)

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Nixie (tube) watch is an amazing analog watch look-a-like, which uses pictures of tubes as numbers. It’s not as incredible as the real wrist watch, but at least less expensive (freeware). For a proper introduction, please check article at Symbian Freak.
http://jouni.miettunen.googlepages.com/nixiewatch
Version 1.20, 2009-08-10
* New: Support touch screen
* New: Support PyS60 1.9.7 (and newer)
For developers (source [...]

Just few minutes ago, a newer beta release of PyS60 was released. This is the 8th dot release in the 1.9.x series to obtain community feedback for the graduating PyS60 2.0 release.
The new additions to the 1.9.7 release are as follows,

Touch support added for GLCanvas UI Control. Directional pad is displayed by default on touch [...]

So far, I have talked about flash games based on logic, their design, code modeling and given tips in Flash Lite. As some might know, I have been reading Python and J2ME for quite some time now. And in this post, I shall discuss how to program a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game in Python. I shall [...]