[Pythonmac-SIG] eliminating appscript-triggered Dock icon

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 1 Apr, 2008, at 14:23, has wrote:
>
> On 1 Apr 2008, at 13:19, has wrote:
>
>> The command line python interpreter automatically upgrades to a full
>> GUI process whenever OS APIs linked to the Window Manager are
>> called. [...]
>
> As an addendum:
>
> Note that this isn't an issue with Ruby as the ruby interpreter only
> upgrades to a GUI process if you call TransformProcessType yourself.
> e.g. This is what rb-appscript's OSAX module does whenever it needs to
> display a dialog, and it works fine.
>
> With the general de-Macification of Python 3.0 being planned, I wonder
> if the python3.0 interpreter should take the same approach, leaving it
> up to individual modules to decide if and when they want a GUI
> connection? Anyone any thoughts?

My preference would be to have have modules "just work", that is I  
shouldn't have to call TransformProcessType myself but appscript and/ 
or the Carbon libraries should do that for me when necessary.

Ronald
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