Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Spotty luck with demos

[<dan...@no...>]

I found the absolute best resource to be Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, by Aaron Hillegass. I simply ignored all of the memory management stuff and used PyObjC rather than ObjC. The only gotcha I remember is adding @endSheetMethod onto things such as openPanelDidEnd_returnCode_contextInfo_().

dan


On Mar 3, 2010, at 5:55a, ext Jim Carroll wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out if I should be using PyObjC instead of
> wxPython for Mac apps...  but I'm having trouble getting started.  In
> the demo files, I'm able to run Grady, and ClassBrowser but not
> OpenGLDemo, which fails with the error, "(ArgumentError: argument 3
> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: wrong type)  and when I try DotView,
> the app immediately quits without ever showing.
> 
> I'm on SnowLeopard on a 64 bit macbook (but running 32 bit everything)
> using a Framework install of Python 2.6. I installed PyObjC=2.2 using
> easy_install, and py2app 0.3.6.  I do have pyOpenGL installed, and can
> run wxPython OpenGL apps.
> 
> I'm completely impressed with Miro, which uses PyObjC to embed VLC,
> and has a decent startup time, and generally works like a charm... but
> can't seem to find the path to writing similar apps myself.  What are
> the best resources for getting started?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jim
> 
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