[Pythonmac-SIG] #! line and simple dialogs [SOLVED]

[Nathaniel Gray]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 23:51:57 -0700, Kevin Altis <altis at semi-retired.com> wrote:
> 
> It is possible that Apple will include the current versions of PyObjC,
> wxPython, and/or appscript with Tiger, but I wouldn't count on it and
> it still won't solve the problem on Jaguar or Panther. 

Bah.  Let them eat cake.  ;^)  Seriously, I'm just trying to figure
out if things are moving in the right direction, and if so, on what
time scale.

> There isn't a
> whole lot of difference between installing PyObjC and wxPython from a
> user standpoint, they both are distributed as disk images and get
> installed by double-clicking a package file. 

You have a good point, but I don't know if dial-up users would agree. 
PyObjC is about 2.7M while wxPython is about 18.6M.

> Of course, you could use
> the PackageManager as well, but that has other problems. AFAIK,
> appscript is orthogonal to the issue of whether you do the GUI via
> wxPython or PyObjC even if that GUI is a linear series of steps and
> only uses dialogs for input. For scripting other applications appscript
> certainly seems easier to use than PyObjC from the examples I've seen
> and used myself. So, I think you're going to want to install two
> packages, but neither are hard to do and it will work on different
> versions of Mac OS X.

Well, since nobody has used the time machine to solve my problem
before I asked it, I'll probably investigate the idea of using
appscript to exploit AppleScript's dialog capabilities.

Thanks,
-n8

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