[Python-checkins] r47092 - in python/trunk/Mac/Demo: applescript.html calldll index.html

ronald.oussoren python-checkins at python.org
Sun Jun 25 23:14:20 CEST 2006


Author: ronald.oussoren
Date: Sun Jun 25 23:14:19 2006
New Revision: 47092

Removed:
   python/trunk/Mac/Demo/calldll/
Modified:
   python/trunk/Mac/Demo/applescript.html
   python/trunk/Mac/Demo/index.html
Log:
Drop the calldll demo's for macos, calldll isn't present anymore, no need
to keep the demo's around.


Modified: python/trunk/Mac/Demo/applescript.html
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Mac/Demo/applescript.html	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Mac/Demo/applescript.html	Sun Jun 25 23:14:19 2006
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 <h1>Using the Open Scripting Architecture from Python</h1>
 <hr>
 
+<p><b>NOTE:</b> this document describes the OSA support that is shipped with
+the core python distribution. Most users are better of with the more 
+userfriendly <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript.html">appscript library</a>.
+
 <p>OSA support in Python is still not 100% complete, but
 there is already enough in place to allow you to do some nifty things
 with other programs from your python program. </p> 
@@ -355,4 +359,4 @@
 
 
 </body>
-</html>
\ No newline at end of file
+</html>

Modified: python/trunk/Mac/Demo/index.html
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Mac/Demo/index.html	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Mac/Demo/index.html	Sun Jun 25 23:14:19 2006
@@ -3,15 +3,16 @@
 <H1><IMG SRC="html.icons/python.gif">Macintosh Python crash course</H1>
 <HR>
 
-This set of documents provides an introduction to various aspects of
+<p>This set of documents provides an introduction to various aspects of
 Python programming on the Mac. It is assumed that the reader is
 already familiar with Python and, to some extent, with MacOS Toolbox
 programming. Other readers may find something interesting here too,
-your mileage may vary. <p>
+your mileage may vary. </p>
 
-There is a companion document <a href="using.html">Using Python on the Mac</a>
-which you should read before starting here: it explains the basics of using
-python on the Macintosh. <p>
+<p>As the previous paragraph reveals to the careful observer these examples
+are dated, most of them were writting before OSX and haven't been updated
+afterwards. They still show how to use the Carbon wrappers but aren't 
+necessarily the best way to use the Carbon API's in OSX.</p>
 
 Another set of Macintosh-savvy examples, more aimed at beginners, is
 maintained by Joseph Strout, at Python Tidbits in <A
@@ -27,10 +28,9 @@
 href="http://www.python.org/doc/">documentation</a> section on the
 webserver. <p>
 
-The W widget set by Just van Rossum, which is used by the Python IDE, does not
-have complete documentation as of this writing, but Corran Webster has
-documented most of it on his
-<A HREF="http://www.nevada.edu/~cwebster/Python/">Python Page</A>. <p>
+<p>The W widget set by Just van Rossum, does not have complete documentation as 
+of this writing, but Corran Webster has documented most of it on his
+<A HREF="http://www.nevada.edu/~cwebster/Python/">Python Page</A>.</p>
 
 There are also some documentation links, as well as other MacPython-related
 pages, in the


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