On 3/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jack Jansen</b> <<a href="mailto:Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
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<br>I was very surprised when I saw this, I'd never seen this before.</blockquote><div><br>It's true, This is not the "proper" use of app framework but it was quick and dirty and worked for me. I don't like the answer "just drop it in this magic box and it will just work". It was mostly to prove a point that you don't need py2app just to solve the simple problem at hand (especially when py2app isn't working for people).
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And, indeed, when I tried it it didn't work:-(<br>Maybe you skipped an important step in the instructions?</blockquote><div><br>Hmm, I am interested in knowing why it didn't work. I am running on 10.4.9 using python
2.4 Framework.<br></div>
</div>Note: there are some unwanted arguments passed to the python program using the method I presented<br><br>Here is a shell script I ran on several other os x installations so there is no doubt it will work and there are no missing steps. It basically creates a python program in /tmp/alfred_hw.py then creates alfred_hw application on the desktop so you can double click it and a window pops up with Hello World:
<br><br><br>#!/bin/sh<br clear="all">cat > /tmp/alfred_hw.py << .<br>from Tkinter import Tk, Label<br>r=Tk()<br>Label(r, text="Hello World").pack()<br>r.mainloop()<br>.<br>mkdir ~/Desktop/alfred_hw.app<br>
cat > ~/Desktop/alfred_hw.app/alfred_hw << .<br>#!/usr/bin/env pythonw /tmp/alfred_hw.py<br>.<br>chmod +x ~/Desktop/alfred_hw.app/alfred_hw<br><br><br>Thanks for the BundleAnatomy link.<br>-- <br>-alfred