TWBlue - Next generation

Note

Please note that this branch is a new generation of TWBlue. The code has been rewritten using the MVC design pattern. It is very unstable. This code may not work properly and it's use is not recommended. Only use for testing purposes.

TWBlue, an accessible, open source and multiplatform twitter application. TW Blue is an app designed to use Twitter simply and efficiently while using minimal system resources. With this app you’ll have access to twitter features such as:

• Create, reply to, retweet and delete tweets,
• Add and remove tweets from favourites,
• Send and delete direct messages,
• See your friends and followers,
• Follow, unfollow, block and report users as spam,
• Open a user’s timeline, which will allow you to get that user’s tweets separately,
• Open URLs when attached to a tweet or direct message,
• Play audio tweets
• and more!

See TWBlue's webpage for more details.

Using TWBlue from sources

This document describes how to run tw blue from source, and, after that, how to build a binary version, which doesn't need Python and the other dependencies to run.

Required dependencies.

Although most dependencies can be found in the windows-dependencies directory, we provide links to their official websites. If you are cloning with git, don't forget to initialize and update the submodules to get the windows-dependencies folder. You can use these two commands to perform this task from git bash:
git submodule init
git submodule update

All the dependencies provided in this folder are prebuilt. If you want to build them from source, you will need Microsoft visual Studio 2008.

Dependencies packaged in windows installers

• Python, version 2.7.9
  If you want to build both x86 and x64 binaries, you can install python x86 to C:\python27 and python x64 to C:\python27x64, for example.
• wxPython for Python 2.7, version 3.0.2
• Python windows extensions (pywin32) for python 2.7, build 219
• Pycurl 7.19.5 for Python 2.7: 32-bit downloads, 64-bit downloads
• PyEnchant, version 1.6.6.
  x64 version has been built by TW Blue developers, so you only will find it in windows-dependencies folder

The windows installers are available only in the windows-dependencies folder

To build a binary version:

• Py2exe for Python 2.7, version 0.6.9

Dependencies that must be installed using easy_install

setuptools install a script, called easy_install. You can find it in the python scripts directory. To install packages using easy_install, you have to navigate to the scripts directory using a command prompt, for example:

cd C:\python27x64\scripts

You can also add the scripts folder to your path environment variable.

After that, run the following command to install a package, replacing packagename with the names listed below:

easy_install -Z package

The -z switch unzips the package, instead of installing it compressed. If you add the --upgrade switch, you can upgrade a package to its latest version. The following packages need to be installed:

• pypubsub
• dropbox
• configobj
• requests-oauthlib
• future
• pygeocoder
• suds
• arrow
• goslate
• markdown

easy_install will automatically get the additional libraries that these packages need to work properly.

Other dependencies

These dependencies are located in the windows-dependencies directory. You don't need to install or modify them.

• Bootstrap 1.2.1: included in dependencies directory.
  This dependency has been built using pure basic 4.61. Its source can be found at http://hg.q-continuum.net/updater
• oggenc2.exe, version 2.87
• Microsoft Visual c++ 2008 redistributable dlls.

Dependencies required to build the installer

• NSIS unicode, version 2.46.5

Running TW Blue from source

Now that you have installed all these packages, you can run TW Blue from source using a command prompt. Navigate to the repo's src directory, and type the following command:

python main.py

If necessary, change the first part of the command to reflect the location of your python executable. You can run TW Blue using python x86 and x64

Building a binary version

A binary version doesn't need python and the other dependencies to run, it's the same version that you will find on the TW Blue website if you download the zip files.

To build it, run the following command from the src folder:

python setup.py py2exe

You will find the binaries in the dist directory.

How to generate a translation template

Run the gen_pot.bat file, located in the tools directory. Your python installation must be in your path environment variable. The pot file will appear in the tools directory.