Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Failed to run the HotKey Example

[Jake W. <del...@gm...>]

Thank you Ronald.

I will try it again, and look forward to seeing if you can run it
successfully.

Jake


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ron...@ma...>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This example like all pyobjc examples with a setup.py file needs to be run
> from an application bundle (run "python setup.py -A").
>
> This particular example has some other restrictions (which aren't
> documented on the website right now):
>
> * It requires python 2.x because it uses the Carbon package that was
> removed in Python 3.0
>
> * It requires a 32-bit build of python 2.x because the Carbon package is
> ancient and uses functions that Apple hasn't made available in 64-bit code.
>
>
> The last restriction makes using py2app harder, because the app bundle
> will happily try to run in 64-bit mode when you build using a python that
> supports 64-bit code. The easiest workaround is to disable 64-bit through
> the finder (for this application).
>
> I'm not sure why the application gives an ImportError exception when you
> try to run it. The usual problem is that the python you're using to run
> py2app is a different one than you expect (e.g. one without pyobjc
> installed), but that doesn't seem to be the problem here because you don't
> get an ImportError when running the script from the command-line.
>
> Ronald
>
> P.S. I haven't tried to run this example in a long while, I'll try to do
> so tonight.
>
> On Jan 03, 2014, at 03:02 PM, Jake Wang <del...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to run the sample PyObjc HotKey example app downloaded from
> this link:
> http://pythonhosted.org/pyobjc/_downloads/PyObjCExample-HotKeyPython.zip
>
> (My environment: Mac OS X 10.8.5, Python 2.7.5)
>
> After I unpacked the file, I tried to:
>
> 1) run it via:
>
> python HotKey.py
>
> and got the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "HotKey.py", line 18, in <module>
>     from Carbon.CarbonEvt import RegisterEventHotKey,
> GetApplicationEventTarget
> ImportError: cannot import name RegisterEventHotKey
>
> 2) run it in 32bit mode, as I thought this might only be supported in
> 32bit.
>
> arch -i386 python HotKey.py
>
> and got another error:
>
> 2014-01-03 21:57:41.083 Python[2047:f0b] No Info.plist file in application
> bundle or no NSPrincipalClass in the Info.plist file, exiting
>
> 3) Then I thought I might have to package it as an xx.app to run, then I
> executed the following command to package it:
>
> python setup.py py2app -A
>
> (also tried 'arch -i386 python setup.py py2app -A')
>
> The app couldn't be run, and then ran it from console, I got the following
> errors:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/Users/jiakuanwang/opensource/PyObjCExample-HotKeyPython/dist/HotKey.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py",
> line 69, in <module>
>     _run()
>   File
> "/Users/jiakuanwang/opensource/PyObjCExample-HotKeyPython/dist/HotKey.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py",
> line 62, in _run
>     exec(compile(source, script, 'exec'), globals(), globals())
>   File
> "/Users/jiakuanwang/opensource/PyObjCExample-HotKeyPython/HotKey.py", line
> 16, in <module>
>     from AppKit import *
> ImportError: No module named AppKit
> 2014-01-03 22:00:41.775 HotKey[2126:707] HotKey Error
>
> Is it possible to run it in some way? Thanks in advance!
>
> Thanks,
> Jake
>
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