new MXitPC Client

new MXitPC Client – Blendit

7 Comments 03 July 2009

Pictured above with his R100 000 cheque is Chris Stranex winner of the Mxit PC client contest. Congrats to him and all the other finalists… I won’t go into details about the event, maybe later, let’s give the other media types a chance to get their info out.

Details on the MXit PC client that won Chris Stranex the R100k can be found on the Mxit devzone wiki…
Download
Source code is included in the download packs

Requirements

Python 2.6
PyGTK 2.11+
GTK2

Optionally the following are suggested:

Audiere and PyAudiere
libnotify (Linux only)
python-notify (Linux only)
gtkspell – 1

Windows Users

Installers are provided for PyGTK, Audiere, Numpy (required by Audiere) Python and GTK in the ‘depends’ directory. Please install Python and GTK first before running the other installers. You can now run BlendIt.
1 – http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/

Running BlendIt

BlendIt works out of it’s own directory (ie: You don’t need to install).

Under Linux or Mac OS X you may simply run ‘./blendit.sh’ or ‘python blend.py’

Windows users can either just run ‘blend.py’. There is a shortcut logo in the image directory if you wish to make a shortcut.

Compatibility

Every effort has been made to ensure cross-platform compatibility. However, it is possible that some minor issues may be experienced under Windows. This should only affect the graphical operations of BlendIt.

BlendIt has NOT been tested on Mac OS X. It is possible for BlendIt to run on Mac provided the user installs GTK2 on the system. More information on how to install GTK might be obtained here: http://www.macports.org/

Here’s the press release…
Durban programmer wins R100 000 for developing top MXit PC client application

More interesting Mxit news if you weren’t following my live twitter stream…

Every second 500 users are logging into Mxit
Mxit 5.9 coming soon with social networking capabilities
mxit pidgin is out!
Blogging coming to mxit too, micro-blogging ?

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http://www.jasonbagley.com JBagley
That’s pretty complex installation instructions. Aren’t MXit going to package it nice and neatly into a install.exe so the noobs can install and run it easily?
Would be cool if they could then port it to Mac too.
Yaseen Hamdulay
MXit didn’t develop the program. That guy Chris Stranex did. It was up to the contestants to make the installers and what what. I’m sure they’ll pretty the things up in the future though.
http://seags.co.za Seags
That is a bit lame if you ask me. I though they wanted a PC app not an app that would run on machine with “web software” installed.
However maybe MXIT could think about it a bit, host the app on their server and use something like Adobe Air as an interface
Chris Stranex
There is a windows binary version packaged that includes everything you need to run BlendIt (it requires no installation).
You might possibly also require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistribution Package (there’s a link in the Windows readme file)
Chris Stranex
@JBagley:
It should run under Mac OS X provided you have Gtk installed. I don’t have a Mac to test it on, so I couldn’t offer installation instructions but basically you just need Python and Gtk and you are away. Sound notification, etc. require more packages.
http://seags.co.za Seags
My argument is that you should not need to install more than one package for one program to work.
For R100 k my program would give sexual pleasure whilst installing.
Other than that congrats on winning.
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