[Py2exe-users] Packaging a glade-based PyGTK app.

[Frédéric <fre...@gb...>]

Hello,

For my application, I use glade to build GUIs. This application runs fine
under linux, and Nokia Internet Tablet for which it is first designed.
It also works under windows, so I would like to package it using py2exe.

With the help of Mario (don't know if he is on this list), I was able to
write a special setup.py for that purpose. We also started to write a
NIS script to distribute the software.

But I have some troubles for non-python files, especially for glade
files. Here is my source structure:

  papywiz.py
  setup.py
  papywizard/
  papywizard/common/
  papywizard/common/loggingServices.py
  papywizard/common/papywizard.conf
  papywizard/common/...
  papywizard/view/
  papywizard/view/mainWindow.glade
  papywizard/view/shootDialog.glade
  papywizard/view/...
  papywizard/controller/
  papywizard/controller/mainController.py
  papywizard/controller/shootController.py
  papywizard/controller/...
  papywizard/...

Once py2exe and NIS script are run, I get the following 'Program Files'
structure:

  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywiz.exe
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\Library.zip
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\w9popen.exe
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\uninstall.exe
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\...
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/common/
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/common/papywizard.conf
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/common/...
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/view/
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/view/mainWindow.glade
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/view/shootDialog.glade
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/view/...
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/controller/
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/controller/mainController.py
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard/controller/...
  C:\Program Files\papywizard\...

it seems that the Library.zip archive can only contains pure python
modules (those build in collect-2.5/). So, I added non-python files
using data_files params in the setup.

the problem is that I don't know how to retreive these files... In my
controllers code, which load the glade files to build the GUI, I use the
following statement:

  path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
  gladeFile = os.path.join(path, os.path.pardir, "view", gladeFile)
  self.wTree = gtk.glade.XML(gladeFile)

to retreive the glade file (and similar statement for the papywizard.conf
file). But under windows, once the package is installed, python search
in:

  C:\Program Files\papywizard\Library.zip\papywizard\common\view

instead of:

  C:\Program Files\papywizard\papywizard\common\view

so, glade and conf files can't be found.

Is there a way to add these files in Library.zip (i.e. in collect-2.5/
dir)?

Thanks for you help,

PS: There are maybe solutions to search the glade files in C:\Program
Files\papywizard\papywizard\common\view dir, but I don't want a
windows-specific code, as this software must work under linux too.
That's why I prefer to work on the installer side (if possible).


--
   Frédéric