Re: [orca-list] OT: Programming in Gnome

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:41:13AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
 
> I'm curious about something.  I have good programming skills in
> several languages but all my linux experience is with console apps
> when it comes to writing any programs.  Is there any place I can go to
> pick up on how to write some simple gnome style programs? 

I just found this:
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html

If you are using the Debian distribution (and Ubuntu may have it as well),
this tutorial can be downloaded as the python-gtk2-tutorial package.

Reading the first few chapters was enough to give me some idea of how GUI
programs are written. Python is used as the programming language, which is an
advantage if you already know Python, or if you're planning to write Orca
scripts and therefore intend to learn Python for that purpose.

I don't know to what extent the examples in the tutorial would have to be
modified to make them accessible. Perhaps somebody should write a
tutorial-style chapter that takes these examples and shows what changes have
to be made to implement the accessibility support.