Thursday, January 18, 2007

MMPOG programming using Pocket pc


This is rather unique as i havent seen many people write reviews on this topic, but some background first. One of my collegues mid last year asked me to do some work on a 6000 X 6000 pixel map for an online game he has been working on for some time, seeing as how most of my free time is spent in transit to and from work each day i decided to cut the map into chunks and use my stylus to design the map pixel by pixel using my pocket pc. A few weeks after that i started learning a scripting language called python to build a client for the game. Again back to using the pocket pc i found the IDLE compiler for python language (available here for PCs) was ported into windows CE, combine that with CHM reader (available here) and you got yourself everything you need to program python on the go. The CE version of python is missing a few things of its bigger cousin versions but all basic functions are available. The chm reader is only a trial version but the python compilers are all free to download.

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