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My photo gallery application needed an update for MacOS X. MacPython's
buildapplet program turned out a Python 2.2 application which still works
fine. However, I wanted to turn it into a "real" MacOS X application and that
meant turning my script into an application bundle.
One of the consequences of doing this was losing a console window
which handled standard input and output. Buildapplet had given me this
feature for free. Using the console, my script could just use print
statements for feedback. I wanted the new version to have better looking
feedback, but I didn't want to spend much time on making it work. Luckily
I didn't have to.
I knew that Python had a large mac toolbox as part of the standard
python install in it's plat-darwin directory. Just take a look at all
those (Mac) designations on the Global Module
Index and you'll see what I mean. The one module in particular which
caught my eye was EasyDialogs.
Using EasyDialogs.py, I was quickly able to add a nice progress bar
to my application as well as a dialog box to display some useful feedback.
Here's an example of how to use them:
import EasyDialogs
import time
images = [str(x) + '.jpg' for x in range(50)]
image_count = len(images)
progress = EasyDialogs.ProgressBar(title='Creating Gallery', maxval=image_count)
for image in images:
progress.label('Processing %s' % image)
progress.inc()
time.sleep(0.1)
EasyDialogs.Message("Finished processing %d images" % image_count)
If you are running this from the command-line on MacOS X, make sure you use pythonw
instead of python since you need to use the windowmanager.
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