Activities/Pilas

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Pilas.xo Project

This brings the pilas-engine game development engine to Sugar, adapting it to the needs of the Sugar platform and adding elements to your learning curve.

We seek to facilitate a teaching tool for Python and game development.

This project was developed during the 2011 Sugar Junin Day Sugar Day Junin 2011

Links to the project

• Activity. .XO [1]
• Code [2]
• Issues tracker [3]
• Name of branch 'pilasqt'. Command to take to the branch:

hg clone https://hugoruscitti@bitbucket.org/hugoruscitti/pilas 
cd pilas/ 
hg update pilasqt

Status

What has been done:

• Packaging the pilas-engine [4] to run on Sugar.
• Incorporation of PyQt libraries [5] into the activity
• Adding widget ninja-ide [6] , to have the interactive shell on the same screen.
• Generation of file dependencies needed for the project with PyInstaller [7]
• Creating the pilas.xo activity

To-do immediately:

• Bug: resize widgets
• Bug: set focus
• Documentation of how it is packaged with Qt activity [8] for Sugar
• define user guidelines and make mockups
• typical Pippy examples [9]
• interpreter and code editor tabs
• option to run in fullscreen or box
• list of Pilas actions and behaviors
• help tab
• persistent options
• Document examples / startup guide

Future Work

We must turn this into a roadmap ...

To-do:

• Trim list of dependencies created PyInstaller, to include only what is needed
• Incorporating autocomplete and inline help for the ninja-ide
• Use dbus [10] to communicate with the menu of others
• Incorporate Sugar persistence [persistence options or code to be developed]
• Integrate code for the pilas-engine [11] and pilas.xo

Wish list

• Refactoring to PyCairo [12]
• Incorporate into the activity the possibility of Sugar sharing
• Add interactive options on objects (such as in eToys [13] )