[Tutor] Launching a file browser

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Thu Mar 31 01:56:23 CEST 2005


Mike Hall wrote:
> I looked over the global module index and the closest thing I could find 
> relating to my os (osx) was EasyDialogs, which has a few functions 
> pertaining to this, "AskFileForOpen()" being one. Calling any function 
> within EasyDialogs however yields an Apple Event error:
> 
> AE.AEInteractWithUser(50000000)
> MacOS.Error: (-1713, 'no user interaction is allowed')

It's been too long since I used Python on MacOSX, but IIRC you can't just run a Python GUI program 
from the shell. Or something like that...you should ask this one on the python-mac SIG mailing list:
http://www.python.org/sigs/pythonmac-sig/

Kent



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