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Originally Posted by cferrism View Post
Guys,

I have decided to jump in at the deep end and look at development for the n900. Im not much of a programmer though apart from dabbling in vb when needed at work so its probably going to be a slow ride. ive never been much for the hello world method of learning, preferring to get my hands on a more complex piece of code and just figure out how its working as i go. so heres where i am at the moment and any help or abuse that ive bitten off more than i can chew would be appreciated:

i have decided to start in python as im getting the general opinion that its easy to pick up and to my benefit the application im looking to port (xbox friend list) is available as python open source which i have messed about with and got running on ubuntu with minimal fuss. The problem now is it uses gtk.glade. I was under the impression that this was supported and that apps like gpodder used it but if i try to run the code on the n900 i get a module gtk.glade not found error.

From searching about i see reference to gtkbuilder as an alternative but while i understand the majority of the code im not entirely sure which bits reference the glade and so what would need to be changed.

Am i on to a lost cause trying to port a python app? any advise or help would be appreciated
Making sure you have all the needed dependencies is an important thing. Also if you don't want to fork the app but keep it working on desktop and Maemo, I would recommend a module I use to hide away hildon specific code
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/ggi...5009d3146bb474
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