Re: [orca-list] Orca, Python and blind programming

[jose vilmar estacio de souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Steve,
Eclipse can be used to develop  C programs, web applications and much 
much more, including python programs. As I said in my previous message, 
you'll need a plugin called pydev if memory serves me correctly.
you'll also find some problems depending on the version of eclipse used.

On 02/09/2010 01:57 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> I though Eclipse was only meant for Java; you can use it with Python
> too?  If so, I might want to look at it.  I agree with the notion
> about EmacSpeak and the editing modes.  But I thought Eclipse might be
> more appropriate for dealing with forms; not sure though.
>
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 07:49:55PM -0200, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote:
>    
> > Hi,
> > Eclipse has a plugin  called pydev that helps a lot.
> > The problem is that eclipse is not working well with orca, at least
> > in my karmic machine.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On 02/08/2010 07:35 PM, Isaac Porat wrote:
> >      
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have experience in developing software in a number of computer
> > > languages.
> > > Orca is written in Python no doubt for good reasons.
> > >
> > > As a blind programmer who rely on speech (I lost my sight to late
> > > in life to be using Braille) I find the way Python mark blocks of
> > > instructions with indentation practically  unusable with speech
> > > with a screen reader (other languages mostly use brackets for this
> > > purpose which is easy to deal with).
> > >
> > > I know that there are hacks out there to use a pre processor to
> > > translate from brackets to indentations but these are probably of
> > > no use with an IDE; I do not wish to go back to text editor for
> > > software development.
> > > So if somebody knows an efficient way of dealing with this I will
> > > be interested to know.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Regards
> > > Isaac
> > >
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