[Pythonmac-SIG] #! line and simple dialogs [SOLVED]

[Bob Ippolito]

On Oct 2, 2004, at 2:52 PM, has wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> It is possible to write a GUI that is a linear series of steps using 
>> only dialogs for input with purely Apple Events (and therefore 
>> possible using only appscript).  I'm not sure it would be 
>> particularly great, but that's what AppleScripters have done for 
>> quite some time.
>
> AppleScript uses OSAXen (OSA eXtensions) for displaying simple dialogs 
> atop a GUI application (by default, the app that called them, but can 
> be any other). They actually work quite well simple graphical 
> input/output in batch scripts, despite the OSAX system itself being a 
> pretty cheesy procedural, C/Pascal-only, namespace-polluting bodge to 
> compensate for the lack of extensibility in AppleScript, and never 
> replaced by something better.
>
> Appscript doesn't support osaxen - there's few that'd be of any use to 
> MacPython users, so it's not really worth it. I've been wrapping the 
> more useful ones; there's an unfinished, untested copy posted here:
>
> http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/osax-0.1.0.tar.gz
>
> Wouldn't be my preferred way of doing things, but maybe it'll fill a 
> gap for now.

What I was saying is that it's technically possible, not that it is 
currently reasonable to do :)

-bob