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

[Ruben M. <rmc...@ya...>]

Phil,

You probably found the answer to this issue by now,
but just in case you haven't here is a tip.  Check
your quotes.  See here for an interesting sample.

http://jason.diamond.name/weblog/2005/04/14/dont-quote-me-on-this

-Ruben

--- Phil Edwards <ph...@li...> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Phil Edwards
> Brighton, UK
> 
> 
>
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