Tom has been skeptical of Python (I’ve never figured out why), but I now have something to change his mind. Last week I stumbled across PyMT, a cryptic name in which the last two letters stand for one of Tom’s favorite subjects: multi-touch.
PyMT is in version 0.2 and it’s built on pyglet. There’s one tutorial that shows how easy it is to create a GUI with PyMT.
The one thing I’d like to do is get rid of the red dot that appears on clicking. It’s meant to indicate a finger pushing on a multi-touch surface, but it would be nice to be able to make some simple apps without having a giant pimple appear under the cursor whenever one clicks. That said, the multi-touch capabilities are pretty impressive for v0.2
Update: There are some videos demonstrating the software. My personal favorite is the first one featuring the Dell XT2. Having a tablet (albeit not multi-touch), I could get some good out of the 36 lines of code running the app in the demo.
