[Pythonmac-SIG] Applets?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 24, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> Technically the current name is py2applet, but it has the standalone
>> app behavior.
>
> So Py2applet is just a new name for Py2app? Why the name change? I  
> kind
> of liked the App vs. Applet Distinction, and would like to have a  
> way to
> do either.

No.  py2applet is the drag and drop application (and command-line  
utility) that tries to make an application out of a bunch of junk you  
pass to it (script, icon, plist, data files, etc.).  It's a lot like  
BuildApplet in theory, it just happens to make a stand-alone  
application instead of something tiny.

>> I'd like to slap a GUI on it that lets you tweak settings and
>> generate a setup.py or just build the app, but that's not in the
>> cards any time soon.
>
> To bad, it's a great idea. If it ever happens, and if I (or someone
> else) every makes the "don't bundle in python" version, it could be a
> check-box in the GUI.
>
> How would you build the GUI? PyObjC?

Yes.

-bob