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

Pilas: [1]
Activity. .XO [2]
Code [3]
Issues tracker [4]
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 [5] to run on Sugar.
Incorporation of PyQt libraries [6] into the activity
Adding widget ninja-ide [7] , to have the interactive shell on the same screen.
Generation of file dependencies needed for the project with PyInstaller [8]
Creating the pilas.xo activity

To-do immediately:

Bug: resize widgets
Bug: set focus
Documentation of how it is packaged with Qt activity [9] for Sugar
define user guidelines and make mockups
typical Pippy examples [10]
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 [11] to communicate with the menu of others
Incorporate Sugar persistence [persistence options or code to be developed]
Integrate code for the pilas-engine [12] and pilas.xo

Wish list

Refactoring to PyCairo [13]
Incorporate into the activity the possibility of Sugar sharing
Add interactive options on objects (such as in eToys [14] )

Getting Started

The Activity starts with a monkey(mono) preloaded in the upper pane and a lower pane that executes Python code in immediate mode

The following commands can be entered (from the Spanish documentation [15])

mono.sonreir()              //monkey smile
mono.gritar()               //monkey shout
mono.decir("Hello World!")
mono.x = 100
mono.y = 100
mono.escala = 2             //set scale
mono.rotacion = 40          //rotate 40 degrees
mono.rotacion = [360]       // the [] means animate
mono.x = [-200, 200]        //animate horizontally
mono.x = [-200, 200] * 5    //go side to side 5 times
mono.x = [-200, 200], 10    //animate over 10 seconds
help(mono)
pilas.ver(mono)             //view source
mono.eliminar()             //delete monkey
mono = pilas.actores.Mono() //create monkey

There is much more, read the Spanish. [16]

Running Pilas from Pippy

This is not working, help please!

Run the following code in Pippy

import sys
sys.path.append('/home/olpc/Activities/Pilas.activity')
import pilas
pilas.iniciar()