Hi Joseph,
I don't think a conference session it would be useful for this. This is way too
complicated to do in a one hour session. What we need is either a series of
tutorials for two better publish the ad own died that is in the ad on template
folder. It has taken me probably about four years to get confident enough with
programming that I can tackle large projects that are larger than just a few
lines of code. I definitely cannot teach that to people in one hour and the
only way people are going to get better at it is if we give them small projects
and walk them through and help them out as they wearing those Alice. Given that
if anyone who is it again or would like help developing an add-on and has an
idea I would be more than happy to jump on board with them and help them learn
different things. I think another great way is for people to post their
development questions so we can answer them. I would love to work with people
on this. Also is the development guide that you and others have been working on
that is inside of one of the add-on repositories buried very deeply published
anywhere? It probably should be published somewhere because otherwise people
are not going to learn from it which I think was its purpose.
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On Apr 7, 2016, at 17:43, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Derek and others: could you perhaps lead a session during NVDACon devoted to
this topic?
Cheers,
Joseph
From: nvda-addons-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:nvda-addons-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 4:41 PM
To: nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [nvda-addons] Re: Developing Addons - The best way to get started?
Hello,
Try out:
Learn Python the Hard Way
Once you learn python, and are able to develop apps, then you can learn about
WX Python which is what NVDA is programmed in. Then once you understand those
two things, you will be ready to understand the Addon docs.
There should be a python tutorial in regards to developing NVDA Addons.
Thanks,
Brandon Keith Biggs
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Damien Sykes-Pendleton
<damien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi guys,
I’m sure I’ve written about this before but I don’t think anything came of it.
I would love nothing more than to start developing addons for NVDA – there
are many applications that I use that could do with it, and probably even
more that I’d want to use but can’t because of limited or no accessibility
that I’m sure would also benefit from them.
I am facing a rather big problem though, in that the available resources seem
to be very limited and vague on the subject. The developer’s guide, the only
document that has come close to describing addon development, only has two
sections dedicated to the subject and even those seem to assume a good
working knowledge of both Python, and the NVDA source code, neither of which
I have.
I have seen a lot of people, on here and elsewhere, simply request that
someone help them to learn Python, whether that be interactive teaching or
even recommending a comprehensive article. I totally understand that this is
not the job of any one person and can also understand why this may be
irritating. On the other hand, I believe there are frustrations on both sides
and what is difficult is pinpointing the exact issue at hand. For instance,
having read several Python resources I am still unsure as to whether it is
Python I am struggling with, or writing addons or understanding code
specifically for NVDA.
With this in mind, I want to guide you through my thought processes as I read
the appropriate material, but I am thinking that it would exceed the size
limit for the list, so I have created an article and uploaded it to my
website. It is an HTML document in a zip file (it is not publicly linked to
on my site, nor did I want its text to be searchable by a search engine in
case there was a large gaping hole that I missed that makes this article
totally invalid).
Given that there are public archives available for the list, I think it best
not to link to it here. So for now if anyone is interested in reading through
it and perhaps going through things step by step with me, or would be
interested in helping me to create some more meaningful resources, whether it
be a tutorial or a document that points to relevant information etc, please
email me off list.
Thanks.
Damien.