PyGUI 1.6: A Note for MacOSX Users

[greg]

A small problem has come to light with PyGUI 1.6
on MacOSX systems.

If you get the following exception:

File "GUI/Generic/BaseAlertFuncti ons.py", line 5, in ?
ImportError: No module named Alerts

it's probably because you don't have PyObjC installed.

I will fix this to produce a more informative error
message in the next release.

=============== =============== =============== =========

What is PyGUI?
--------------

PyGUI is an experimental highly-Pythonic cross-platform
GUI API. Implementations are currently available for
MacOSX and Gtk. For a full description of the project
goals, see the PyGUI web page at the above address.

The current version is available from:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/

--
Greg

[Alex Martelli]

Re: PyGUI 1.6: A Note for MacOSX Users

greg <greg@cosc.cant erbury.ac.nz> wrote:
[color=blue]
> A small problem has come to light with PyGUI 1.6
> on MacOSX systems.
>
> If you get the following exception:
>
> File "GUI/Generic/BaseAlertFuncti ons.py", line 5, in ?
> ImportError: No module named Alerts
>
> it's probably because you don't have PyObjC installed.[/color]

I'm getting quite a different error:

[[snipped earlier parts of traceback]]
File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-pa
ckages/GUI/Cocoa/Applications.py ", line 184, in init_applicatio n_name
ns_info['CFBundleName'] = GApplications.a pplication_name
TypeError: object does not support item assignment

That's when I try (after installing PyGUI):

helen:~/Desktop/PyGUI-1.6/Demos alex$ python blobedit.py

MacOSX, XCode, Python and PyObjC all at the latest binary-released
levels, I believe (10.4.5, 2.2, 2.4.1, 1.3.6 respectively).


Alex

[Greg Ewing]

Re: PyGUI 1.6: A Note for MacOSX Users

Alex Martelli wrote:
[color=blue]
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-pa
> ckages/GUI/Cocoa/Applications.py ", line 184, in init_applicatio n_name
> ns_info['CFBundleName'] = GApplications.a pplication_name
> TypeError: object does not support item assignment[/color]

You need to run your program with pythonw, not python.

--
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg

[Alex Martelli]

Re: PyGUI 1.6: A Note for MacOSX Users

Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.cant erbury.ac.nz> wrote:
[color=blue]
> Alex Martelli wrote:
>[color=green]
> > "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-pa
> > ckages/GUI/Cocoa/Applications.py ", line 184, in init_applicatio n_name
> > ns_info['CFBundleName'] = GApplications.a pplication_name
> > TypeError: object does not support item assignment[/color]
>
> You need to run your program with pythonw, not python.[/color]

Thanks -- that was indeed my mistake. Dunno why I keep tripping over
that problem on the Mac;-).


Alex