Re: [Pyobjc-dev] py2app: unable to load nib-file

[Johan R. <joh...@gm...>]

Odd, because I've seen people just add English.lproj to data_files.
For example, look at
/Developer/Examples/Python/PyObjC/Cocoa/AppKit/Todo/setup.py.

Thanks for your code example.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Ian Beck <ia...@on...> wrote:
> Hey Johan,
>
> The problem is likely with your data_files declaration.  You can't
> just toss data_files a folder and have it intelligently include
> everything in it.  You have to give it a complete file list of
> everything you want included in your project.
>
> Here's the code that I'm using to automatically populate data_files;
> it may have issues (probably should be modified to exclude .svn
> folders if you're using SVN, for instance), but at least it's an
> example of the kind of thing you'll need to do:
>
> import os
>
> # Sets what directory to crawl for files to include
> # Relative to location of setup.py; leave off trailing slash
> includes_dir = 'src'
>
> # Set the root directory for included files
> # Relative to the bundle's Resources folder, so '../../' targets
> bundle root
> includes_target = '../../'
>
> # Initialize an empty list so we can use list.append()
> includes = []
>
> # Walk the includes directory and include all the files
> for root, dirs, filenames in os.walk(includes_dir):
>     if root is includes_dir:
>         final = includes_target
>     else:
>         final = includes_target + root[len(includes_dir)+1:] + '/'
>     files = []
>     for file in filenames:
>         if (file[0] != '.'):
>             files.append(os.path.join(root, file))
>     includes.append((final, files))
>
> setup(
>     name='Foo',
>     app = ['main.py'],
>     data_files = includes,
> )
>
> Ian
>
> On Apr 13, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Johan Rydberg wrote:
>
>> I've created a PyObjC project using Xcode, and everything works just
>> fine when I hit Build and Go.
>>
>> But it happens that I'm better suited for using emacs and command-line
>> tools, so I tried to write up
>> a simple setup.py;
>>
>> #...
>> setup(
>>    name="Foo",
>>    app=["main.py"],
>>    data_files=["English.lproj"],
>> )
>>
>> Running setup.py py2app -A creates the dist and build directories.
>> The problem starts when trying
>> to run the executable:
>>
>> 2009-04-13 22:22:29.513 Foo[46645:10b] Unable to load nib file:
>> MainMenu, exiting
>>
>> Has I missed anything in my setup.py file?
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> This SF.net email is sponsored by:
>> High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment.
>> Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now!
>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pyobjc-dev mailing list
>> Pyo...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyobjc-dev
>
> ——————————————————
> Ian Beck
> ia...@on...
>
> Tagamac: simple mac tagging
> http://tagamac.com
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by:
> High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment.
> Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now!
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com
> _______________________________________________
> Pyobjc-dev mailing list
> Pyo...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyobjc-dev
>