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papywizard Developper Guide
Introduction
Papywizard is entirely written in python. It uses PyGTK (Python bindings for GTK) toolkit for the GUI, and a few additional modules, mainly for hardware control (pybluez and pyserial). Optionnaly, vpython (OpenGL-based module) can also be used to simulate the position of the head (note that this feature may be soon removed from the main trunk, and put in its own repository).
API
The API documentation is available as web page in the html/ directory.
Architecture
Papywizard uses a MVC-like pattern, which keeps the model separated from the views. This allows to use any other toolkit if needed; I recently switched from Tkinter to PyGTK, to run papywizard on Nokia plateform. I hope, one day, to be able to run papywizard on QTopia-based devices, like Openmoko. But I first need to get such device ;o)
Low-levels routines which control the hardware are also in their own package; I plan to made them even more modualr, to be used in an external project to control the head. For know, only Merlin/Orion head is supported, but it is very easy to implement other heads.
A word about the simulation (to come).
Hardware
Model
View
Make Debian package
Papywizard includes an distutils extension script to build debian package in a easy way:
$ python setup.py bdist_debian
The package is build in the dist/ directory.
