[Pythonmac-SIG] EasyDialog? Not quite what I need..

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Mon Sep 8 13:18:43 EDT 2003


Tkinter and PIL will do this, and they are both available in OS X.  You 
just have to download Tcl/Tk separately, that's all.  Look in Jack's 
(the official) Package Manager repository, they're both there (Tk is 
just instructions, PIL is something you can actually fetch).

On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 12:01 America/New_York, Kevin Ollivier wrote:

> Hi Benjamin,
>
> Have you considered going the wxPython route? It's interesting in that 
> there is no free, cross-platform ZIP/UNZIP software, and I've always 
> thought that Python/wxPython would be the perfect combo for one. (At 
> our work we distribute free software to people in developing 
> countries, so having this would be very nice. ;-) Just a thought!
>
> I'm sure someone else will also offer PyObjC as a solution to this 
> problem as well. ^_^
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
> On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 08:26  AM, Schollnick, Benjamin wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> 	I'm working on a zip file archive viewer...
>>
>> 	The idea is that the user would select the archive, I would read
>> 	the table of contents via zipfile, and display a pop up or a list
>> 	dialog with the files.
>>
>> 	The user chooses the files they want to view (multiple or single
>> select)
>> 	and then the program would unarchive them and display the file on
>> screen..
>> 	Either via Applescript or a image viewer in python...  (Maybe
>> quicktime)
>>
>> 	Well, I can do everything, except display the pop up or list
>> dialog...
>> 	EasyDialogs would be the solution for the Select Fialog dialog...
>>
>> 	If this was Mac 9, I would be using Tkinter probably to create the
>> dialog
>> 	window for the file selection...
>>
>> 	Since that option is not available for Mac OS X, Does anyone have a
>> suggestion
>> 	for the file selection window?  I see that popups are available from
>> Easy dialogs.
>> 	(The second demo test)  But I have not been able to simplify it to
>> just
>> 	show a single popup...
>>
>> 	Even then, may be a "Select File:    XXXXX.ZIP" with the internal
>> zip listing
>> 	would be good...  But I haven't messed with the GUI side of python
>> programming,
>> 	except with Tkinter...
>>
>> 	Anyone willing to offer some suggestions, or take pity, and point
>> out how
>> 	I can do this?	(Pointers are *VERY WELCOME*)




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