[Pythonmac-SIG] 2 proposals for embedding MacPython in a C++ app

[Gary Bringhurst]

The latest documentation on Metrowerks 7's MSL indicates that there is a
function call available to make something linked against SIOUX "windowless".
They talk about going into stub mode, as if you had not linked against SIOUX
but rather the console stubs.  This allows a runtime determination of
whether to ever show a console window.  Does this satisify the need on the
Mac?

Gary Bringhurst
garyb@strata.com


> From: Jack Jansen <jack@oratrix.nl>
> Date: Friday, September 7, 2001 5:05 PM
> To: Alexandre Parenteau <aparente@adobe.com>
> CC: pythonmac-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2 proposals for embedding MacPython in a C++ app
> 
> 
> Recently, Alexandre Parenteau <aparente@adobe.com> said:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 1 - Provide a registry mechanism for the MacPython preferences
>> 2 - Provide a PyMac_SetWindowless function
> 
> I like your (1), it would also solve the problem that to override one
> prefernce you have to override them all, and that a new version of the
> prefs resource means I have to put in backward compatability hacks or
> all .rsrc files for applets will break. I think I'll want to do this
> myself, as there's various issues with overriding prefs and such that
> I feel are important. Maybe put in a sourceforge change request, so
> I'll remember?
> 
> As to (2): I like the idea, but as we've discussed offline I don't
> have a clear picture of when you would want to call this (before
> PyMac_Initialize()? At any time?) and exactly what it should do
> (close stdin/stdout/stderr? More?). Do you think you can come up with
> a patch yourself?
> 
> For the benefit of the rest of the list: I think a way to forbid
> Python to touch the UI on its own initiative would make it possible
> (or at least safer) to create FBAs in Python, use Python for Netscape
> Plugins and all that sort of things.
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