[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Bomberoo with applet memory set too low...

[Jack Jansen]

> 
> My little Python application does things the Unix way -- assume you have
> infinite virtual memory and suck an entire file in with a single read() or
> readlines() call.  This has some rather negative consequences on the Mac.
> The most troublesome is that I get an Error 10 bomb dialog if I haven't set
> the applet's min size/preferred size values high enough.  Two questions:
> 
>     1. Shouldn't Python crap out more gracefully in this situation?

Definitely... It isn't always simple, though: if it is Python who does the 
malloc that fails it usually gets turned into a MemoryError exception, but if 
it's the underlying C library things usually get messy. I can't seem to 
reproduce this bomb, though: do you have example code?

> 
>     2. Can BuildApplet be modified to set defaults for min/preferred sizes
>        so users (programmers) don't have to remember to pop up the applet's
>        info box and increase those values?

I'm not sure I like this. BuildApplet is interface-less at the moment, and I'd 
like to keep it that way. Option-dropping a python source on buildapplet could 
cause a dialog to appear, but then people are likely to forget to option-drop.

What do people think?
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