[Pythoncard-users] Not enjoying win32 programming...

[Phil E. <ph...@li...>]

Hi All:

Coming from a Linux background, I'm struggling to understand some of the 
things that appear to be going on behind the scenes when I'm coding stuff to 
run under Windows XP.

The application in question has a textfield containing the name of a Python 
source code file and an 'Edit...' button next to it. When I click the button, 
I'm running this code:

    def on_mainScriptEditBtn_mouseClick(self, event):
        editor = self.cfg.get('ConfigData', 'codeeditor')
        item = self.pathJoin(self.components.mainScript.text)
        item = os.path.join(self.components.baseDir.text, item)
        item = os.path.join(self.cfg.get('ConfigData', 'projects'), item)
        if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
            editor = GetShortPathName(editor)
            item = GetShortPathName(item)
        print editor + ' ' + item
        os.system(editor + ' ' + item)

When the code runs, it prints out what I'm expecting, namely that I'm trying 
to run the Pythoncard code editor with the name of a script file as the only 
parameter on the command line. I then get the standard 'windows cannot open 
this file' dialog box and I get to tell Windows that I want codeEditor.py to 
be opened using the program called 'python'. The codeEditor duly opens up, 
but it seems as though Windows is somehow losing my command line parameter 
and all I end up with is a blank codeEditor window, instead of it opening the 
file I wanted it to. Adding a simple 'print sys.argv' to the top of the 
codeEditor proves that this is the case.

Could somebody please explain to a dumb UNIX user what vital piece of 
information I'm missing in order to make this work?



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Regards

Phil Edwards
Brighton, UK