Here’s a little tip for anyone that wants to add a persistent ad banner above the UITabBar to their tab navigation based iPhone app. I’ve seen a few apps do this so I was fairly surprised when a quick search of Google and StackOverflow turned up absolutely nothing. After all, it seems like it would…
My previous post on the Flash controversy brought up some interesting comments that I thought warranted further discussion. A number of bloggers have shared their opinions as well. Incidentally, this conversation has been going on for months on the web, the iPad announcement just seems to have reignited it. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch posted: We…
Having done several years of Flash development and having worked with many Flash developers, the recent controversy between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPad is very amusing to me. First, there are a few arguments that I want to address directly: But Flash is the only way to deploy a consistent cross platform…
It’s been a few days since our first bumbling foray into custom PyGTK icons using PyCairo, and now it’s time to reap the benefits. We’re concocting a few simple classes which will make drawing and icon creation a breeze. Your final, glorious product should look like this: Unimpressive, you say? Well maybe so, but take…
Welcome to Part II of learning to draw custom icons in PyGTK with PyCairo. In the previous post we learned how to draw on a gtk.DrawingArea the hard way. Now let’s simplify things; after all, who has time to wait for “expose-event”s before drawing?? In a recession??? Another suggested method for drawing in a Cairo/Drawable…
Never in my life have I received so much gratification from one simple act: the act of drawing of a square. My current goal is to create very basic, custom icons such as a circles and squares for my PyGTK toolbar buttons in Screwdriver (a Python framework which is our answer to the question of…
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