StarBase for iPad - dev blog video

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simonh

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I've been playing around with a native Python development environment for the iPad called Pythonista. The project is a mapping application for Traveller in the same vein as StarBase. It's early days yet, but I think I'm making good progress.

Turns out you can do screen recordings from you iPad, directly on an attached Mac. Cool!

http://youtu.be/Bn0_Ez5_BsI

My first ever Youtube video! I considered re-recording it, but it's hilarious (for me anyway). Listen out for my wife sneezing, and also her sister skyping us from China half way through.

Anyway, it's still a decent overview of the state of the app so far. I hope you find it interesting.

Simon Hibbs
 
I assume you're using the 'Starbase v 0.24 for Windows' link on the page linked from my sig?

I've not tested it on a lot of boxes, but it should be ok on XP or Seven. It should create a log file in it's install directory on startup. If you can send me that I'll take a look.

Simon Hibbs
 
v24 runs on my Windows 7 Pro machine. If you clicked on the download tab at the top, you'll need to install Python 2.7 and other stuff to run it.
 
If you download the windows package from the link in the middle of the page it contains an executable and all the libraries you need. You don't need to install anything else. Not tested on 8.1 though.

If you downloaded the source package (from the links at top-right on the page) then yes, you'll need to install Python and a bunch of libraries.

Simon Hibbs
 
8.1 will work. But PySide/PyQt will display the older system[default] fonts from Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 that 8.1 doesn't have. So menus look wonky. The code has to be edited to use whatever the system font is called in 8.1.

Or... 8.1 needs to run in XP/7 GUI mode instead of Metro GUI mode. I hope Windows 10 fixes this kind of stuff between GUIs.
 
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