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| author | Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> | 1996-03-18 13:38:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> | 1996-03-18 13:38:52 (GMT) |
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Explanations of the examples here
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diff --git a/Mac/Demo/index.html b/Mac/Demo/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ef4ebd --- /dev/null +++ b/Mac/Demo/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Macintosh Python crash course</TITLE></HEAD> +<BODY> +<H1><IMG SRC="html.icons/python.gif">Macintosh Python crash course</H1> +<HR> + +This set of documents provides an introduction to various aspects of +Python programming on the Mac. It is assumed that the reader is +already familiar with Python and, to some extent, with MacOS Toolbox +programming. Other readers may find something interesting here too, +your mileage may vary. <p> + +Another set of Macintosh-savvy examples, more aimed at beginners, is +maintained by Joseph Strout, at <A +HREF="http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/python/"> +http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/python/</A>. +<P> + +The document was actually written while I was working on a "real" +project: creating a single-button application that will allow my +girlfriend to read her mail (which actually pass thry <EM>my</EM> +mailbox, so I get to read it too, but don't tell her:-) without her +having to worry about internet connections, unix commands, etc. The +application, when finished, will connect to the net using InterSLIP, +start a (pseudo-)POP server on unix using rsh and use AppleScript to +tell Eudora to connect to that server and retrieve messages. <p> + +<CITE> +If you want to try the examples here you will have to download some +fixes to the 1.3 distribution to your Macintosh. You need an updated +version of <A HREF="update-to-1.3/FrameWork.py">FrameWork.py</A> (to +go in <CODE>Lib:mac</CODE> and updated <A +HREF="update-to-1.3/into-PlugIns.hqx">project templates</A> to go into +the <CODE>PlugIns</CODE> folder for PPC users. +Users of 1.3.1 or later distributions don't need these fixes.<P> +</CITE> + +If you are reading this document on the web and would prefer to read +it offline you can transfer the whole stuff (as a BinHexed StuffIt +archive) from <A HREF="complete.hqx"> here</A>. This archive includes +the fixes mentioned in the previous paragraph. <p> + +<H2>Table of contents</H2> + +<UL> +<LI> +<A HREF="example1.html">Using python to create Macintosh applications, +part one</A> explains how to create a simple modal-dialog application +in Python. It also takes a glance at using the toolbox modules Res and +Dlg, and EasyDialogs for simple question-dialogs. + +<LI> +<A HREF="example2.html">Using python to create Macintosh applications, +part two</A> turns the previous example program into a more complete +mac application, using a modeless dialog, menus, etc. It also explains +how to create applets, standalone applications written in Python. + +<LI> +In the Python distribution two more examples are included without +explanation. <I>PICTbrowse</I> is an application that locates PICT +resources and displays them, it demonstrates some quickdraw and the +resource and list namagers. <I>Imgbrowse</I> displays image files in +many different formats (gif, tiff, pbm, etc). It shows how to use the +img modules on the mac. + +<LI> +<A HREF="plugins.html">Creating a C extension module on the Macintosh</A> +is meant for the hardcore programmer, and shows how to create an +extension module in C. It also handles using Modulator to create the +boilerplate for your module, and creating dynamically-loadable modules +on PowerPC Macs. + +<LI> +<A HREF="applescript.html">Using Open Scripting Architecture from Python</A> explains +how to create a Python module interfacing to a scriptable application, +and how to use that module in your python program. +</UL> + +At some point in the (possibly distant) future, I will add chapters on +how to use bgen to create modules completely automatic and how to make +your Python program scriptable, but that will have to wait. <p> + +<HR> + +Please let me know if you miss critical information in this +document. I am quite sure that I will never find the time to turn it +into a complete MacPython programmers guide (which would probably be a +400-page book instead of 5 lousy html-files), but it should contain +at least the information that is neither in the standard Python +documentation nor in Inside Mac or other Mac programmers +documentation. <p> + +<HR> +<A HREF="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack">Jack Jansen</A>, +<A HREF="mailto:jack@cwi.nl">jack@cwi.nl</A>, 6-Mar-1996. |