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After months of brainstorming, I have finally decided on an official name for this project: OpenShot Video Editor. Open stands for open-source, and Shot stands for a single cinematic take.

Here is my first draft of the logo. Expect the final product to include a theme that borrows heavily from this logo's colors and ...

Have you ever run into a problem where your favorite Python IDE can't determine the type of a variable, and thus you get no auto-completion? There is a built-in function in Python called isInstance(your_variable, type_of_variable) that is designed to compare a variable to a class type, and return true or false. However, just the ...

There comes a time in every man's life where a single goocanvas.Canvas widget just won't cut it. Imagine you need two separate canvases for your interface, but you want them to scroll together with a single scroll bar. How would you solve this problem?

First, to enable a goocanvas.Canvas object to scroll is ...

As you know, I am creating a complex timeline for my non-linear video application. I had the choice between the GnomeCanvas (which is obsolete) and a lesser known goocanvas (which is cairo based). I originally choose to use the GnomeCanvas, because it is much more well known, and there is more documentation for it.

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I have a new favorite Python IDE, and it's the Wingware IDE. That's right folks, the Eclipse IDE (with PyDev) does an admirable job, as well as The Eric Python IDE, but neither are as impressive as Wingware. From this point forward, I dumping the other IDEs and going ...