[Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3b2-b BuildApplet droplets not recognized as apps

[Russell E Owen]

I've reported this as bug 769406 
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=769406&group_id=5470&atid=105470> 
but I thought others might be interested. I'm certainly curious if 
others are having the problem.

I just upgraded to 10.2.6 today (my DiskWarrior upgrade finally 
arrived) and the problem remains the same (no surprise).

-------- bug as reported -----

I am using MacPython 2.3b2 (installed via the 2.3b2-2 binary 
installer) on MacOS 10.2.3.

I turned zappycfiles.py (from the Mac directory of the 2.3b2 source 
distribution, which I also have) into a drag-and-drop applet by 
dragging onto BuildApplet. On the whole it works fine (though no 
console for feedback and I've not figured out how to get one), but I 
am having two problems that are almost certainly caused by the same 
underlying problem:

- The Dock does not acknowledge that it's an application. I cannot 
drag it into the usual app area of the dock.

- DragThing (4.6.1, the current version) seems to agree with the 
Dock. It will not let me drag stuff onto it (even with "Check file 
types during drags" unchecked).

Obviously more of an annoyance than a crisis, but I hope worth fixing.