[Pythonmac-SIG] Can you send Apple events to Classic apps from an OS-X app?

[Nicholas Riley]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0800, Chris Barker wrote:
> We're about to start developing a new app, and I'm pushing heavily for 
> Python+wxPython as the tool of choice. One question that has come up is 
> whether we need to make an OS-9 version of the app, which would make it 
> pretty hard to use wxPython. Frankly, I think developing for OS-9 is a 
> waste of time, but we have a bunch of existing apps that are OS-9 based, 
> and this new app will need to talk to them. They can all run in Classic 
> mode fine. Thus the question..will we be able to make a wxPython 
> MacPython OS-X app that can communicate with OS-9 apps running under 
> classic? Most important is to be able to send Apple events to the OS-9 
> apps, but we might want to be able to receive them as well.

I thought there was a wxWindows port for OS 9, dunno about wxPython
though.  wxWindows applications tend to look very ugly on Mac OS X by
default, so you may end up spending time fixing appearance related
issues.  wxWindows looks quite native on Windows, though, where I've
done all my wxWindows/wxPython development to date).

It is definitely possible to send Apple Events back and forth between
Classic and native Mac OS X apps - this has worked since the blue box
of Mac OS X Server 1.0 back in 1999.

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=Nicholas Riley <njriley at uiuc.edu> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>