About PyI7

PyI7 is a Python/Tkinter IDE for Inform 7, an IF authoring system.

What's implemented

• You get a text editor window with your story in it. You can edit it. It has undo/redo, and syntax highlighting.

• You can invoke the Inform 7 compiler chain to build a game file.

• You can invoke your favourite interpreter to playtest it.

• You can invoke a HTML browser to read the Inform documentation, index files produced by the compiler, and Inform extensions.

• You can even run it as a command-line program if you want to, without all that GUI stuff getting in the way. Woo hoo!

What's not

• There's no support for the skein or transcript.

• There's no 'Replay' function.

Requirements

To install and run things properly, you will need the following already installed:

• Python >= 2.5 with the Tkinter package using Tk >= 8.4.

• The Linux Inform 7 distribution.

• A web browser capable of displaying frames. Tested with Firefox, but others should work OK.

• Optional, but nice: some decent Z-code and GLULX interpreters. The default is to use the dumb versions distributed with Inform 7 in an xterm. Yuck. Instead, I recommend gargoyle for both.

Site contents

For now, this site will just contain packaged tarballs -- no subversion tree. I manage the sources offline using CVS. But feel free to submit patches to me (Glenn Hutchings, zondo42@googlemail.com).