Hi, Thanks for your quick reply. I'm leaning towards case 2 i) as it seems the simpler. You are quite right in that speed is an issue for me, so I'll have to do some testing to see what suits my needs. I guess as long as I have access to the python interpreter, it might as well be from within the application itself. Thanks again!
~ Roger On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM, has <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Roger Herikstad wrote: > >> I'm developing a Cocoa >> application for plotting relatively large data sets (10000-100 000 >> points) containing waveforms recorded from electrophysiological >> experiments. The program allows for efficient panning through the >> data, zooming, as well as other features. Since I am doing most of my >> analysis in python, the idea occurred to me to try creating an >> interface of sort to my Cocoa application using python. > > Options: > > 1. Use IPC (e.g. Apple events, Distributed Objects) to communicate with your > application from a separate Python process. > > > 2. Embed a Python interpreter in your application and use PyObjC to interact > with Cocoa objects from Python and vice-versa. (This topic came up last > month if you check the archives.) Two variations on this: > > i. embed the interpreter directly in your application (simpler) > > ii. create an NSBundle-based plugin API (c.f. VoodooPad) which takes a > suitably packaged Python interpreter or anything else you might want to add > (more flexible). > > > 3. Package your application's Model layer as a self-contained framework (as > you suggest) which a Python process can import via PyObjC. > > > Since you're dealing with fairly large amounts of data and speed is > presumably a requirement, that probably eliminates #1. Of #2 and #3, #2 is > probably the easier to implement as it can easily be added to an existing > application without having to do lots of refactoring to break out the Model > as an independent framework. #3 might be worth considering if you'd have > other uses for such a framework, however. > > HTH > > has > -- > Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC: > http://appscript.sourceforge.net > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
