[Pyobjc-dev] PyShellView?

[Michael H. <mw...@py...>]

I seem to have written this on the train on the way back from
EuroPython:

For a PyObjC application I want to write, I really really want to have
a Python shell view, i.e. an area I can type Python commands into and
have them executed interactively.  I should have few problems with the
Python side -- I seem to do things like this all the time -- but the
Cocoa side is considerably more mysterious to me.

Also I want to donate this to the PyObjC project, as it would be an
essential component of any PyObjC-based IDE, and I would like to do a
really good job and produce a widget that is maintainable by others.

I imagine this would involve writing a subclass of NSTextView.
Override keyDown:?  I'm not sure where to hook into to modify
behaviour at this level.

In dreamland, I would like to be able to drag a PyShellView from the
palette in IB, select which module it should run in from the Info
window -- default "__main__" -- and have things Just Work(tm).

I don't really have any time to work on this, but probably will find
some anyway.

Comments?

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  Two things I learned for sure during a particularly intense acid
  trip in my own lost youth: (1) everything is a trivial special case
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                                             -- Tim Peters, 1 May 1998