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The Python bindings for the Clutter core and integration libraries have been released. this release of the Python bindings map the Clutter 1.0 API cycle.

Download is available at:

http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/pyclutter/1.0/

MD5 checksums:

  1cfbb64eceef6828e47e9a64689ffa41  pyclutter-1.0.0.tar.bz2
  2e99aaf6100d609b2c0da1655d7c8693  pyclutter-1.0.0.tar.gz

Requirements

• GLib 2.16.0 or higher
• GTK+ 2.10.0 or higher
• Clutter 1.0.0 or higher
• PyCairo 1.0.2 or higher
• PyGObject 2.12.1 or higher
• PyGTK
• Python 2.5.0 or higher

Documentation

an incomplete API reference is available at:

http://www.clutter-project.org/docs/pyclutter/stable/

Python developers are encouraged to submit patches to increase the quality and coverage of the documentation.

Release notes

• This is the first stable release of the 1.* cycle
• Requires Clutter core >= 1.0.0
• The bindings for Clutter-GStreamer and Clutter-GTK have been dropped from the PyClutter module, and they will be shipped separately as PyClutter-GStreamer (pyclutter-gst) and PyClutter-GTK (pyclutter-gtk). The new modules are already available as separate repositories.

Changes from 0.8

• Require Clutter core >= 1.0.0
• Provide better bindings for the Cogl API
• Add more examples ported from the clutter core interactive tests
• Dropped the in-tree bindings of clutter-gtk and clutter-gst: you will have to install pyclutter-gtk and pyclutter-gst respectively to be able to import cluttergtk and cluttergst.
• Allow accessing child properties for clutter.Container
• Allow iterating over the children of a clutter.Container using the native Python iterator support
• Allow creating custom ChildMeta classes from Python
• Mark the classes removed from upstream Clutter as "deprecated"; trying to instantiate one of the deprecated classes will result in the equivalent class in Clutter 1.0 to be created and a warning printed out on the console
• Override the __repr__ and __str__ methods for clutter.Color: the former will print out a wtring that can be used through eval() to create a copy of the color; the latter will print out the hexadecimal representation of the color.
• Override the __str__ method of clutter.Event: it will now print more information on the event (type, time, source actor) and per-event type fields (button, key, related actor, etc.).
• Deprecated clutter.stage_get_default() in favour of an optional argument to clutter.Stage(); calling:
  

      >>> clutter.Stage(default=True)
  

  will return the default Stage singleton; the default argument is optional and it defaults to False.

• Allow passing the following values to methods accepting a clutter.Color:
  • a clutter.Color (e.g.: clutter.Color(255, 0, 0, 255))
  • a 4-tuple of RGBA values (e.g.: (255, 0, 0, 255))
  • a hexadecimal representation of the color (e.g.: '#ff0000ff')

Many thanks to

Bastian Winkler (new maintainer of PyClutter), Young-Ho Cha, Chideok Hwang