hope someone could write a book about python-ogre

hope someone could write a book about python-ogre like <<pro ogre programming>>.we,beginners,really have no good books for learning python-ogre.

I think there aren´t many people qualified to write a book about it excpet the developers. I understand that you have problems learning PythonOgre because the only source are the tutorials. I think before thinking about writing a book the lack of documentation should be closed. I would help myself to close it. So let´s pass it to andy and he should tell us what to do.

You shouldn't need a book on Python-Ogre. A long tutorial is all it should take. This is because Python-Ogre just wraps existing C++ libraries and keeps there interfaces almost perfectly. So then it just comes down to a few corner cases of usage and actually building and install Python-Ogre.

Of course you need no book about PythonOgre, but the API Documentation should get better. Its a bit difficult to work with it for me atm.

You mean the Python-Ogre changes to APIs? For the most part you should be able to just use the underlying libraries documentation. Which APIs are under documented?

Of course you need no book about PythonOgre, but the API Documentation should get better. Its a bit difficult to work with it for me atm.

Hopefully you are using the Ogre API docs, yes?

http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/api/html/index.html

As GameEnder points out, the ogre portion of python-ogre is a very thin wrapper around the actual C++ library. Almost everything you can learn in the Ogre forum is applicable here. I often cut and paste Ogre C++ code, needing only to change structure operators '->' to '.' and remove the terminating semi-colon to get it to work ;-)

I know this doesn't really help you at the moment - stick with it though - there's a huge pay-off at the end.

yeah, there is no special API docs for python-ogre,even the API docs for ogre are not as good as java's.i hope at least every method'function should be described rather than just showing the form and parameter.

Python-Ogre documentation for Ogre will never be better's than Ogre's itself. If you don't think the documentation is good enough for Ogre post a feature request or questions in the Main Ogre help forum about the classes you are having trouble understanding.

Right now Python-Ogre auto-includes any doxygen documentation for the functions its wraps, I don't think its going to get any better than that in the foreseeable future.

Let me be clear: The Ogre book is very applicable to Python-Ogre if you are a Python-Ogre developer it will be worth the buy.

I think the only near term way around this is to write lots of tutorials and to examine and understand all the demos.

Joe (inneractive) did are great job on the 1st 4 tutorials and I'm hoping someone would be interested in doing the rest. As mentioned it's a challenge especially with all the new libraries being added, each with their own API's

I intend to improve the usability of the Python-Ogre site which should make it easier for people to add hints/tips/tutorials, plus perhaps start work on a bit of a manual.

One "back of the mind idea" is to borrow from the Panda3D project and write a simplified high level interface to Python-Ogre, perhaps using the community framework as a base for it.

Cheers
Andy

That famous book - 'War and Peace' springs to mind. I think any PO manual would have a similar pagecount with all the libs on offer in 1.0!