On Feb 14, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Daniel Lord wrote: > (Unless of course its been mentioned here before and then in the > words of SNL's immortal Emily Latella: "Never mind!")
I think something like it was mentioned a few years ago, but there haven't been any recent discussions about this particular application or the topic in general. > CocoaDialog seems to fill that gap between the command-line and > PyObjC providing a 'quick and dirty' GUI interface for scripts > (Python. Perl. Shell, Ruby, etc.) > I just found it while 'googling up' up some AppKit NSTextContainer > subtleties I was having trouble figuring out and I thought I'd pass > it along. How Google put those two together I'll never know ;-) One thing to note: CocoaDialog is GPL. This is probably OK for most contexts since you just communicate with it via pipes, but it certainly means that it'd never be a standard feature of either OS X or MacPython. > Clearly it doesn't replace PyObjC's power and breadth, but it might > have a place in the toolbox for smaller projects. Kind of a Growl/ > Display Dialog artifice. > > http://cocoadialog.sourceforge.net/documentation.html There's no reason why PyObjC couldn't ship with a library that had a set of "Easy Dialogs" to use from more CLI-oriented apps. It'd be a good project for someone who cares. I'd recommend simply re- implementing the old EasyDialogs API in PyObjC, and then extending it to support more modern features of OS X. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
