[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Re: Python and Super/hypercard

[Jack Jansen]

> Both HyperCard and SuperCard support the use of code resources know as
> xcmd's and xfnc/s.  There are a lot of these out there that do stuff that
> would be useful in a mac-python app.  Has anybody wriiten anything to take
> advantage of them?
> 
> I think that this should be doable in straight mac python from what I've
> seen of it.

This would be very nice. It has been on my wishlist for a number of years 
already, but I've never had a real application for it so it didn't get done 
yet. If someone is willing to look into it it would be nice to have.

> The other idea is a bit more complicated.  It seems to me that it should be
> possible to make an xcmd out of python itself. such an xcmd would allow you
> to make an embeded application in HyperCard or SuperCard (or any
> application that can use xcmds) just by importing the python xcmd
> "resource".

This is impossible. Or, let me state that differently: I wouldn't know how to 
do this. Python needs lots of code and dataspace, and code resources are too 
cramped.

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