Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Application without py2app?

[Thorsten Kohnhorst]

Hello Ronald, thanks for the fast reply. I would like to know if it is possible to create an Cocoa application without using py2app. Sure, you can build the .app bundle by hand. Apple's website documents the structure of bundles. Well, I am happy with the bundle that was generated by py2app.  I just want to start the application from the python script and not from the generated executable (see below). So far I managed to load the nib from a path by calling NibClassBuilder._nibInfo._extractClassesFromNibFromPath(nibFilePath) instead of NibClassBuilder.extractClasses(nibFile) That's wrong, methods starting with underscores should be considered private. Furthermore this has nothing to do with py2app. Yes, I know.  I already found out that I can accomplish the same by specifying the bundle explicitly: bundle = NSBundle.bundleWithPath_("./build/Development/krix.app") info = bundle.infoDictionary()[u'PyObjCXcode'] for nibFile in info[u'NIBFiles']: NibClassBuilder.extractClasses(nibFile, bundle) But the app still exits with this message: Python[310] No Info.plist file in application bundle or no NSPrincipalClass in the Info.plist file, exiting This is probably because the Pythons bundle is used. Does anybody know how to tell the application to use another bundle? Which brings us to the main point: I have no idea what you are trying to accomplish. If I had to guess I'd guess that you want to create a python GUI without using an .app bundle. That is possible, but not recommended (hence the lack of details about how to do this ;-)) No, I am fine using an application bundle. It's just that the IDE I am trying to use (SPE) seems to know nothing about executables.  And I guess that the included debugger might only work if the application is started from a python script. If there was another way to use a python IDE with a debugger I won't care about how exactly the app is started. I hope I made myself clearer now. Thanks again for your fast reply. Yours kodi

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