[Pythonmac-SIG] improving interactivity in scripts

[Christopher Barker]

On 5/4/11 2:41 AM, Adam Morris wrote:
> I was wondering what sort of options are out there for a poor soul who
> deploys Python extensively in his workflows, and uses appscript and
> calls to display dialog and the like to interact with the user, but
> would really, really like it if there could just be something out
> there, as easy as display dialog, that would give me more options for
> dialog boxes.
>
> I want something as "easy as python" to use in my program, and that
> doesn't make me use Interface Builder. I don't know why, but I prefer
> to handle and maintain everything with straight code.

Do you have any need for something platform independent? wxPython give a 
lot of options, and is particularly nice, I think, if you want to 
describe your dialogs in code. (or maybe it's just NOT nice if you want 
to use a GUI builder...)

It can be a bit verbose to create and use a dialog, but if you have some 
common ones you use, a few utility functions are easy to whip up. It's 
usually used for full-on event driven GUIs, but I've enclosed a sample 
of using dialogs in a procedural, or script-like program.

-Chris





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