Hi Christopher, Thank you for your answer, I guess I need to find a port of wxWidgets / wxPython or some kind that targets the mobile platform better, or instead use the Embedded Visual Studio with .NET. I love Python so I hope there is a better alternative for the smartphone.
Regards, - Jorgen On 10/15/07, Christopher Fairbairn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jorgen, > > On Tue Oct 16 5:37 , "Jorgen Bodde" sent: > >I have PythonCE 2.5 and TKinter running on my smartphone. I wrote a > >minimal app and I see a dialog with a button, but since it is a > >smartphone which does only have number keys and a jog dial to control > >the input, the window stays unresponsive to input. I cannot even set > >the focus to a control. > > In general smartphone programming is slightly different from programming for a > standard Pocket PC device. > > As you mentioned the first issue you typically come across is the lack of > ability > to select a control. The solution to this is to programatically select the > first > control on your window when initialising it. The OS has support within the > default > window procedure to then allow the user to "tab" between controls when the up > or > down arrow keys are pressed. > > A potentially larger problem with TKinter (a toolkit that I have no experience > with) are issues around the standard controls such as combo boxes and buttons. > > On a Windows Mobile smartphone standard controls such as a combo box are > exactly > the same as you would see on a Pocket PC device. This leads to usability > problems, > for instance with a combo box there is no way to drop down it's list without > being > able to click on the little arrow button to the side of the control, which you > obviously can't do on most smartphones. > > For this reason Microsoft suggests using a series of alternative controls. For > example what you may think is a combo box within a smartphone application is > probably a 1 line high listbox coupled with an up/down spinbox auto-buddy > docked to > its right. Application frameworks such as the .NET Compact Framework > generally > abstract this different within their control classes, so an application > programmer > creates a "combobox" and the framework determines which set of native > controls need > creation to implement this. > > I assume that TKinter probably hasn't been implemented with this kind of > thing in > mind. > > Hope this helps, > Christopher Fairbairn > > PS: Just thinking about it now I bieleve TKinter is a framework which > essentially > draws all it's own custom controls. If this is the case the problem is > probably > more involved, since you won't get the native OS support for selecting > controls on > a smartphone etc. > > _______________________________________________ > PythonCE mailing list > PythonCE@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce > _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
