ANNOUNCE: kiwi 1.9.21

Tue Mar 18 17:39:23 BRT 2008

Hi George and Async friends,

congratulations for this new release of Kiwi. It looks quite promising.

I've been following Kiwi latest release announcements and I must say
there is a big bug in them: even when my name is mentioned in the Thanks
section the name of a swedish person who has done waaaaaaaay more than
me is not in the whole email. I'll give you a little tip: its name
starts by Johan and ends by Dahlin, oops, I said too much :-)

Seriously, I think he deserves a little recognition for his wonderful
work in Kiwi. Please fix the bug in the next release!

Congratulations again and have a nice eastern week you all!

Lorenzo

El mar, 18-03-2008 a las 16:24 -0300, GeorgeYK escribió:
> Kiwi is a PyGTK framework for building graphical applications loosely
> based on MVC Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Allen Holub's Visual proxy
> [1]. Think of Kiwi as a high-level, object-oriented layer built on
> PyGTK.
> Its design is based on real-world experience using PyGTK to develop
> large desktop applications, which use many concepts common to most
> graphical applications: multiple windows and dialogs, forms, data
> persistence, lists and high-level classes that support domain objects
> directly.
> 
> 
> Download
> ========
> 
> Grab the latest sources from:
> 
>    http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/download/kiwi-1.9.21.tar.gz
> 
> 
> What's new since 1.9.20?
> =======================
>      - Handle case when entry completion is poping
>        up and the entry loses focus. (Ronaldo Maia, #3639)
>      - Added Spanish/Chilean translation (Gabriel Felipe Cornejo Salas)
>      - Added Spanish translation (Jose Martin)
>      - Update polish translation (Jarek Zgoda)
> 
> 
> Features
> ========
> 
> * An MVC-derived framework of classes:
>    * Views, which represent the graphical display
>    * Controllers, which handles user interaction with the widgets
>      in a View.
>    * Delegates, combines a View and a Controller.
>    * Models, which are special mixins for your domain objects
>    * Proxies, special types of Delegate designed to implement forms
> 
> * Validation: Kiwi supports validation on different levels:
>    data type validation and verification on the Model/Proxy level,
>    View validation and hooks for visually displaying validation state.
> 
> * ObjectList widget, which provides a higher level abstraction of
>    GtkTreeView and all its classes (GtkTreeModel, GtkTreeViewColumn,
>    GtkCellRenderer) with hooks to easily integrate into the
>    Kiwi Framework.
> 
> * Mask suport: You can set a mask on entries to force the input to
>    follow a certain standard, such as zip code, social security, ip address
> 
> * Gazpacho integration for most (non-deprecated) interactive
>    widgets with attributes for handling validation and proxy
>    attributes.
> 
> * UI Test framework
>    Features a recorder and a player. The recorder allows you to record
>    different tasks, a script will be saved which will reproduce the
>    actions you made in the interface.
> 
> * Kiwi Tasklets
>    Tasklet is a small coroutines framework written by Gustavo Carneiro,
>    it was previously known as gtasklets.
> 
> * PyGTK utilities, to make it easier to add signals and properties to
>    your objects.
> 
> * i18n translation utilities, to help you translate PyGTK applications,
>    currently depends on gettext and intltool.
> 
> * and many other things!
> 
> 
> Requirements
> ============
> 
> Python 2.3 or higher (2.4 recommended)  http://www.python.org/
> PyGTK 2.6.0 or higher (2.8 recommended) http://www.pygtk.org/
> gazpacho 0.6.5 (svn recommenced)        http://gazpacho.sicem.biz/
> 
> 
> Documentation
> =============
> Kiwi provides API documentation generated by epydoc, it can be found at
> 
>   http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/api/
> 
> Included in the tarball are also a number of examples, which serves as a
> good starting point. Keep in mind that most of them require gazpacho to
> be installed.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> ======
> Christian Robottom Reis: Original author and design
> Lorenzo Gil Sanchez: PyGTK 2.x port
> 
> Also thanks to the following people which has contributed features
> or bug reports:
> Ali Afshar, Henrique Romano, Daniel Saran R. da Cunha, Evandro Vale
> Miquelito, Gustavo Barbieri, Gustavo Carneiro, Ronaldo Maia,
> Benoit Myard, Patrick O'Brien, Goedson Teixeira Paixao, Sidnei da Silva, 
> Marco Antonio Porcho Souza
> 
> Resources
> =========
> 
> Homepage     http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/
> Download     http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/download/
> Repository   http://svn.async.com.br/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/kiwi/
> Report a bug http://bugs.async.com.br/enter_bug.cgi?product=Kiwi
> API docs     http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/api/
> Open bugs    http://tinyurl.com/cyrms
> Mail. list   http://www.async.com.br/mailman/listinfo/kiwi/
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller
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