sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib libsdl1.2-dev texinfo libcrypto++-dev libssl-dev lib32ncurses5-dev m4 libelf-dev
This is about 300Mb of stuff, some of it can be culled but I didn’t feel like messing around with that.
Allows for pepper 19 examples to be compiled successfully.
While playing around with some idea’s for making PyProxy completely overridable ( and also potentially undebuggable ) I started playing around with metaclasses.
Below is from my toxic directory [ gist url ]
from collections import defaultdict
from functools import wraps
Just some preliminary basic utilities
A simple bus implementation, decoratedCalls is a dictionary of service calls, with a list
of callbacks to each service call hook.
decoratedCalls = defaultdict(list)
def call(name, *args, **kwargs):
print name, args, kwargs
if name in decoratedCalls:
for cb in decoratedCalls[name]:
cb(*args, **kwargs)
Syntactic suger to add clarity later as to what functions are being bound to what. Adding in
debug/logging hooks here could allow for easier tracing of what is called for what methods.
class Subscribe(object):
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
def __call__(self, f):
decoratedCalls[self.name].append(f)
return f
Here’s the actual bus decorator, very simple just wraps the decorated function with a pre and post bus calls.
class BusDecorator(object):
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
def __call__(self, f):
@wraps(f)
def decorator(inst, *args, **kwargs):
call("%s-pre" % self.name, inst, args, kwargs)
retval = f(inst, *args, **kwargs)
call("%s-post" % self.name, inst, retval)
return retval
return decorator
And here’s my Bus Metaclass that combines most of the above.
The ease of wrapping the target class is accomplished by cdict which is a dictionary of
every defined attribute of the target class. As you can see it’s trivial to spin
through and decorate every callable with the BusDecorator
class BusWrap(type):
def __new__(mcs, clsname, bases, cdict):
modName = cdict.get("__module__", "unknownclass")
for name in cdict.keys():
prefix = "%s.%s.%s" % ( modName, clsname, name)
if callable(cdict[name]):
cdict[name] = BusDecorator(prefix)(cdict[name])
return type.__new__(mcs, name, bases, cdict)
Now give a dirt simple class like
class Foo(object):
__metaclass__ = BusWrap
def __init__(self):
print "init'd"
def bar(self):
print "bar"
def blah(self):
print "blah"
def ich(self):
print "ich"
def ego(self):
print "lego"
def say(self, *args):
print "Saying ", args
And two service handlers to pre Foo.bar being called and after Foo.ego is called
@Subscribe("__main__.Foo.bar-pre")
def preBar(inst, *args, **kwargs):
if not hasattr(inst, "ext_info"):
inst.ext_info = "Here"
@Subscribe("__main__.Foo.ego-post")
def postEgo(inst, *args, **kwargs):
if hasattr(inst, "ext_info"):
print "Extended info is ", inst.ext_info
Our test shows….
x = Foo()
x.bar()
x.blah()
x.ich()
x.ego()
x.say("abba", "dabba")
this as output
__main__.Foo.__init__-pre (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, (), {}) {}
init'd
__main__.Foo.__init__-post (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, None) {}
__main__.Foo.bar-pre (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, (), {}) {}
bar
__main__.Foo.bar-post (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, None) {}
__main__.Foo.blah-pre (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, (), {}) {}
blah
__main__.Foo.blah-post (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, None) {}
__main__.Foo.ich-pre (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, (), {}) {}
ich
__main__.Foo.ich-post (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, None) {}
__main__.Foo.ego-pre (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, (), {}) {}
lego
__main__.Foo.ego-post (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, None) {}
Extended info is Here
__main__.Foo.say-pre (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, ('abba', 'dabba'), {}) {}
Saying ('abba', 'dabba')
__main__.Foo.say-post (<__main__.__init__ object at 0x02637890>, None) {}
As the #1 google result for “python plugin”, the linked to blog post is extremely valuable for jump starting research into implementing your own plugin system ( like me ) or finding one that is viable for implementation in your project ( possibly like me ).
These resources highlight one reason why there is not a standard Python plug-in framework: there are a variety of different capabilities that a user may want, and the complexity of the framework generally increases as these new capabilities are added
http://wehart.blogspot.com/2009/01/python-plugin-frameworks.html
Found this http://pycheesecake.org/wiki/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy mostly up to date treasure trove of tools with summaries for unit-testing Python. So far the darling in my eye is Python Nose in combination with the Python coverage plugin
I’ve got about thirty auto-generated PHP Doctrine models that are missing their required Java style setters/getters. At class number three of typing in these accessory methods I snapped and said “There has to be a better way” and magically the universe smacked me upside the head and reminded me that I’m using Komodo IDE which just so happens to have a disgustingly powerful Python powered macro system.
Four minutes later, out came the copy & paste hacked together monstrosity below. It’s not perfect but it doesn’t need to be, just has to work well enough to save my sanity and my client’s time.
To use, follow Komodo’s help documentation for creating a new python Macro then copy and paste this code into the macro window OR a slightly easier way, make the macro then click the “edit macro” context menu property to open the macro source file as a new view in Komodo.
The macro uses some very simple rules. It’s only looking for private properties in a format of “^\s*private \$[a-zA-Z0-9_]$”, it collects all of these variable names and then appends them through the setter and getter templates to a string buffer. Finally the buffer is
inserted into the current document at the position of the cursor. The output is coherent but not whitespace friendly which isn’t too big of a deal to re-format. Note, the macro has no concept of PHP syntax, so if there is more then one class in a file, the results will not be desirable.
from xpcom import components
import re
viewSvc = components.classes["@activestate.com/koViewService;1"]\
.getService(components.interfaces.koIViewService)
view = viewSvc.currentView.queryInterface(components.interfaces.koIScintillaView)
sm = view.scimoz
sm.currentPos # current position in the editor
sm.text # editor text
sm.selText # the selected text
#sm.text = "Hello World!"
output = u"\n"
setterTemplate = """
function set%s($value){
$this->%s = $value;
}
"""
getterTemplate = """
/**
*@return string
*/
function get%s(){
return $this->%s;
}
"""
propertyTemplate = """
%s
%s
"""
prefixSize = len(u"private $")
def formalName(rawName):
return u"%s" % "".join([part.title() for part in rawName.split("_")])
#todo find a better way to split lines, what if its Mac or Windows format?
for line in sm.text.split("\n"):
if line.strip().startswith("private $"):
#trim of the private $ and trailing semi-colon
realName = line.strip()[prefixSize:-1]
output += propertyTemplate % ( setterTemplate %(formalName(realName), realName), getterTemplate % (formalName(realName), realName))
sm.insertText(sm.currentPos, output)
Reading over this ( http://gonzalo123.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/web-console-with-node-js/ ) , I felt this was a pretty good and relatively real world example of nodeJS’s capabilities. I did find one line near the end very poignant and reflective of my own opinions at the end of the show & tell post
I don’t know if node.js is the future or is just another hype, but it’s easy. And cool. Really cool.
I’ve started self-teaching myself NodeJS and not surprisingly there was a recent popular reddit link pointing to a not very short introduction to nodejs here ( http://anders.janmyr.com/2011/05/not-very-short-introduction-to-nodejs.html ) . At this point I haven’t found any good books for reference lookup… but hopefully in a week or so I’ll have gotten spooled up enough to be able to report back.
In the meantime as I use Ubuntu for everything but games, this short article here ( http://www.codediesel.com/linux/installing-node-js-on-ubuntu-10-04/ ) was enough to get a working environment running though I recommend using a pristine virtual machine instance to keep things simple.
Last point, a reliable friend & peer of mine recommended I check out this MVC like framework for NodeJS ( http://expressjs.com/ ). Preliminary it feels like a hybrid between Twistd and CherryPy in Python or Limonade PHP as far as style… aiming more for simplicity over feature/complexity.
To return the names of the columns you want, you need to use aoColumndefs and provided individual objects with the property sName.
Below is most of the implementation for a jeditable Ajax driven dataTables, this is the Alpha version and still needs a lot of love in places, but the gist of it is here
var semesterTable = $("#semesterViewTable").dataTable({
"bProcessing" : true
, "bServerSide" : true
, "sAjaxSource" : ""
, "fnRowCallback" : function( nRow, aData, iDisplayIndex, iDisplayIndexFull ) {
//console.log(nRow, aData, iDisplayIndex, iDisplayIndexFull);
var recordId = aData[0];
$("td", nRow).data("recordId", recordId);
return nRow;
}
, "fnDrawCallback" : function(){
$("td.editableMajor")
.editable("",
{
loadurl: ""
, type: "select"
, submit: "OK"
, method: "post"
, submitdata: function(){
console.log(this, arguments);
var $this = $(this);
return {
recordId: $this.data("recordId")
, classes: $this.attr("class")
}
}
});
}
/* Seriously a meta-generator for this would be nice */
,"aoColumnDefs": [
,{ sName:"record_id", aTargets:[00], bSearchable:false, bVisible:false }
,{ sName:"roster_date", aTargets:[01], sClass:"roster_date"}
,{ sName:"roster_name_both", aTargets:[02], sClass:"roster_name_both"}
,{ sName:"roster_student_id", aTargets:[03], sClass:"roster_student_id"}
,{ sName:"roster_major1", aTargets:[04], sClass:"roster_major1 editableMajor"}
,{ sName:"roster_major2", aTargets:[05], sClass:"roster_major2 editableMajor"}
,{ sName:"roster_major3", aTargets:[06], sClass:"roster_major3 editableMajor"}
,{ sName:"roster_major4", aTargets:[07], sClass:"roster_major4 editableMajor"}
,{ sName:"roster_minor1", aTargets:[08], sClass:"roster_minor1 editableMajor"}
,{ sName:"roster_minor2", aTargets:[09], sClass:"roster_minor2 editableMajor"}
]
});
For the tbody, just put something like
<tbody><tr><td>Chill the fuck out, it's loading</td></tr></tbody>
dataTables expects a JSON’ified construct like this
$responseBody = array(
"sEcho" => intval($input['sEcho']),
"iTotalRecords" => (int) $count,
"iTotalDisplayRecords" => count($data),
"aaData" => $data
);
If the blink tag still worked reliably, I’d put a neon sign here. Basically you need to do 3 queries per Ajax call… call 1 is to get a
SELECT count(1) FROM sourceTABLE
call 2 is
SELECT count(1) FROM sourceTable WHERE someCriteria
and finally call 3 is
SELECT yourColumnList FROM sourceTable WHERE someCriteria
With memcache or such, I’d advise caching the total count but no matter what you unfortunately need to make these three SQL calls :(.
So… a fair number of people arrive here looking for how to detect when a pixel/object/thing has collided with something else.
I’ll add more information in the future but in the interim, the quick and dirty advice I can provide:
Given p = x, y where this is the point your trying to determine if it intersects another… the best place is to start with bounding box logic. Â Regardless of what shape your object is, if wrap it in an invisible box boundry, it’s relatively trivial to do:
box upper left origin is bX, bY off size sizeX, sizeY.  If p.x greater then bX and p.x less then bX + sizeX AND p.y greater then bY and p.y less then bY + sizeY  you’re inside the bounding box and it’s highly likely your point has or will soon be colliding with an object.
That’s pretty much it and is perfect if you don’t mine lagging the crap out of whatever is running this logic.   To make these collision checks performant, you need to make the computer do less work.  For two dimensional space, my personnel research has led me to the Quad tree structure ( wikipedia article ).  I’ve got a brute force / naive implementation prototyped  @ here & here but as of 2011 March 9th it is not finished and needs some more work.
Basically Quad tree’s provides a super quick way for you to determine if there is any other objects in relative space to an entity. Â Doing a quick lookup, if there’s nothing nearby then you can skip the bounding box checks and then the stupidly expensive perimeter intersection checks.
Full library is here and like most of my pet projects is heavily undocumented and completely absent of unit-testing.
Inspired by this
Source code @ Github here
So… this basically covers elliptical paths ( which I want to play with more ), a rendering chain I’m happy with, and a few others things. What isn’t exactly right: speed, planetary/stellar surface animation is missing, and I’d like to have a fly by mechanism that shifts the Y ratio progressively over time.