[BLOG] Making your own Twitter client: Part 2

MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
edited November -1 in Community
So, after a few days of not being able to touch the client at all, I had an extremely productive night last night. Not only did I manage to get all my stupid buttons working, I also managed to arrange the layout in such a way that it doesn't eat up more screen realestate than is available on my netbook. Also included is the ability to retrieve replies, your entire personal timeline, and all direct messages. All of this formatted in an appropriate way using TKinter in Python.

My goals for this project are pretty much threefold:
  • Learn Python
  • Learn the Twitter API
  • Develop this client specifically for my/a netbook

I think its pretty ambitious, but I know that the majority of twitter clients out there just wont' fit on my screen, and having to interrupt what I'm doing to go piddle around with a web browser is pretty deal breaking as far as creativity and production is concerned, so here I go.

I'll be posting screen shots of my VERY, VERY rough GUI interface sometime later today or tomorrow

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    I have some ideas about things I would like to see in a netbook twitter client.

    I love tweetdeck, but there are a few things I'd like it to do better

    What's your netbook res? I'm running at 1024x600
  • chrisWhitechrisWhite Littleton, CO
    This sounds like a cool project!
  • MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
    Yes Brian, 1024x600, so I'm trying pretty hard to adjust to that...although it's becoming exceedingly difficult to keep the font readable AND the client only taking up, at most, half the screen real-estate. Any ideas you have would be awesome to try out. I'm currently doing this in Ubuntu but it is written in python with TKinter so it should be easy to port to a windows platform.
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