[Pythonmac-SIG] Launch App in background

[Bill Bedford]

At 10:41 pm +0200 05/09/98, Vincenzo Tschinke wrote:

~I would like to use an helper application that processes some files for my
~python script. On the Mac I tried this hack:
~
~import findertools
~import sys
~
~def launch_app(app):
~	# invoke finder
~	findertools.launch(app)
~	# hack to refocuse on Python!
~	findertools.launch(sys.executable)
~
~This has the disadvantage that Python goes in the background and the
~desktop appears for a certain time (a few seconds in my case) with
~whatever messy bunch of windows and icons is at hand. Changing the "finder
~flags" of the application itself (background only, etc.) does not have an
~effect.
~
~Does anybody have a better method? Would at least be possible to show a
~box telling "Work in progress" or something while the application is
~running?

Your helper application should come to front, not the finder. The way to to
do what you want is use a second method which is called after the helper.

def launch_pyth():
	# hack to refocuse on Python!
	findertools.launch(PYTHON)

PYTHON is the path to the python application not sys.path
Bill Bedford

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