Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Altered classes

[Deirdre S. M. <de...@de...>]

>Basically, pyobjc mangles the ObjC selector names by substituting _ 
>for each : (because : is reserved in python).

I guess what I don't understand is why the *trailing* underscore. I 
did understand the underscore bit though.

>The second problem sounds more like an Appkit initialization 
>problem-- did you have a look at Steve's AppKit example?   Make sure 
>something like that works first, then try loading the NIB.  If the 
>NIB loading is still broken, then we have an additional 
>initialization phase at the AppKit level we haven't taken care of 
>yet.

Yes, I've been working from that example and modifying it.

>As well, there will be a certain line beyond which we really, 
>really, really need to have the Main Event Loop running to do 
>anything from Python to the Appkit...

Understandable. In looking through AppKit, it seems that it loads all 
the stuff prior to the main loop, but I could be wrong. Basically I 
was trying it before running the app, but maybe that's the wrong 
approach.

If you look at the Main file from an existing PB project, this is 
what it looks like these days:

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
     return NSApplicationMain(argc, argv);
}

Maybe the Nib loading problem is from trying to use something other 
than that specific function?

Unfortunately, in the example below, it doesn't exist:

import pyobjc
import sys

rt = pyobjc.runtime

def main():

     pool = rt.NSAutoreleasePool()
     # Load Application Framework:
     foundationKit = rt.NSBundle.bundleWithPath_(
         '/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework').load()
     appKit = rt.NSBundle.bundleWithPath_(
         '/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework').load()

     Doc = rt.NSDocument.alloc()
     Nib = rt.NSBundle.loadNibNamed_owner_("MainMenu.nib", Doc)
#    print Nib

     return rt.NSApplicationMain(len(sys.argv), sys.argv)

if __name__ == '__main__' :
     main()


>Has anyone tried creating a Python object and setting it as NSApp's 
>delegate, then seeing if you could grab notifications??

Since people have tried this, I'd be interested in what *everyone* 
has tried, what did work and what didn't. I can make a coherent 
document out of it and then maybe that will open the door for other 
"bang and slash" people to try and figure out stuff. Then it won't be 
so lonely here. :)

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