Software

  Most of these programs are still in use and development, but the versions/info here is somewhat dated. The only program still ported actively for Windows is the clipart viewer/editor. All the rest are developed and tested exclusively on Absolute Linux.

  Absolute is what I use and maintain, and as such the programs I develop are written for and distributed with Absolute. This may seem limiting, but the apps/scripts can easily be packaged for use in other Linux distributions. You will find the general information below, the sources for all of these can be downloaded, with the latest versions present in the Absolute repositoies. the main repo is at:

http://www.slackware.org.uk/absolute/



  A couple of these programs are in C, the rest were programmed in Python. They are distributed in "Source Code" form, and some also in binary format. If running Windows, the binary eliminates the need for a Python installation on your machine. On Linux you can run the Source Code, or a binary if I have made one for your distribution. To run either the source or binary on Linux you will need Python >= 2.4 as well as GTK+2 >= 2.6.1.0. I detail more specific requirements for running the source code on the individual program pages.



  With Python I use the pyGTK or the wxPython toolkit, depending on the application. SVGpage is in pyGTK because the GTK toolkit incorporated Cairo first, WP Clipart has a viewer originally written using wxWidgets, but I have since re-coded to use pyGTK. FONTpage and wxFontView are basically the same application using those two toolkits.

  Anything I wrote in wxPython is being rewritten or dropped as I no longer use the toolkit. I now use just pyGTK for Python apps.







  I write these programs because they are applications I use myself, and as a learning tool for both programming and Linux development/maintenance. I distribute them in the hope that they will be useful to others as well, that I might get some feedback, as a sort of online resume, and because a couple times a year Google will send me a check to defray the cost of running a website : )