> Yikes, that sounds pretty hairy. Maybe this kind of thing is not as
> straight forward as anticipated. Why HTML you say? Well I've been
> intrigued by Dashboard, which will be in the next OSX release. It allows
> you to create "widgets" which are essentially little html pages that do
> things. This got me thinking how I'd like to tie a small Python script I
> wrote into an html front end (ideally becoming a widget). It's looking
> like this may be trickier than anticipated. In any case, thanks.
Hi Mike,
Interesting!
You probably know about this already, but PyObjC allows you to write Mac
OS X Cocoa applications in Python:
http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/
and this is a well tested bridge to make Python classes integrate into
Cocoa applications. For example,
http://www.pycs.net/bbum/2004/12/10/#200412101
mentions the use of PyObjC to make a Mac OS X screensaver. So it appears
to embed very well.
According to the documentation from Apple's Dashboard developer site, we
can embed Cocoa bundles into Javascript (there's a brief mention of it
under "Custom Code Plug-ins":
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/dashboard.html
So in theory, we should be able to inject a Pythonified Cocoa bundle into
Dashboard, but then again, I've never tried this before. *grin*
I haven't dived into doing Mac OS X development yet, but perhaps someone
on the PyObjC list might be able to cook up a quick-and-dirty example of
this for you.
Try asking on their list and see if you get some useful responses:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyobjc-dev
Best of wishes to you!
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