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Overview
- What is Dabo?
- Who are the People involved with Dabo?
- What do Dabo applications look like? See the Application Showcase page!
- Dabo News
Requirements and Installation
- What are the Requirements for Dabo?
- What about Installing Dabo?
Learning Dabo - FAQs, Tutorials, Documentation, Demos
- FAQs - NewbieFAQs - HowTos
- Tutorials and Screencasts - includes the PyCon 2010 Tutorial
- Dabo PyCon 2007 - Part 1 (note, there are 6 YouTube videos)
- Part 3 shows how "data binding" works, e.g., how a drop-down UI object can be bound to (and hence control) the ScaleMode property of another UI object -- a dImage object in this case -- with only two lines of code!
- simple bizObjects Tutorials
- Simple framework tutorial
- Auto-generated API documentation (dabodoc.tar.gz) - note that if a Property, Event, or Method is bold, that means it is not inherited
- Framework Documentation
- IDE Documentation
- What can I do with the Dabo Demos?
- Thanks to Antonio CHESSA, we now have several of our wiki pages translated into Italian! We have started to translate the wiki into Chinese and Russian.
Dabo Features
- Dabo supports Internationalization
- Dabo now has a local cursor engine! The new DataSet objects allow developers to manipulate the data returned by a backend database by running any standard SQL statement against the DataSet.
- Dabo supports basic DrawObjects in its UI. This allows you to draw shapes (circles, rectangles, polygons, lines) on any UI surface.
Contributing to Dabo
- Want to contribute code to Dabo? Take a look at the Coding Guidelines first.
- Contributing to Dabo
- Dabo Code Development
- Features that Need Work
- Issue Tracker
- Browse code with trac or directly from the SVN repository
Future of Dabo
- OLD: Find out what's already happened on the Dabo Release History page.
- We need to plan our releases, so here's a Release Roadmap.
Projects
- I'm looking into integrating the awesome Winpdb debugger into Dabo. Here's a screenshot of the SimpleFormWithBizobj demo running under Winpdb. See also UsingPdbDebuggerInClassDesigner
- We're working on a Twitter client named tweezer! Come join the fun!
Using This Wiki
Pointers on how to use this wiki: click the help link along the top of this page. Also, you might want to check out the Wiki How To page, or ZWiki:FAQs and ZWiki:QuickReference
If you want to add python code samples, just wrap them in <pycode> tags. That's all it takes to preserve formatting and color-code your sample.
The Recent Changes page show you what has changed on this wiki recently.
Need Help?
Got a question? Send email to the mailing list or browse the email archives.
You can also post a question on the Questions About Dabo page. See also Dabo Support.
This site brought to you by the authors of Dabo, EdLeafe and PaulMcNett.