Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Installing Pygame

2009-06-29 Thread Dav Clark
(I accidentally sent this just to arthamax) Pygame is the most difficult package I've installed by hand on the mac. I suspect the fink approach would be the easiest if you insist on python 2.6 and it supports pygame all with binary packages. I use MacPorts, which I've found to be more up-

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Installing Pygame

2009-06-29 Thread Dav Clark
On Jun 29, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: I don't see any pygame downloads for 10.4, so I wouldn't try to use it till I had some understanding of how to build it from scratch. From Macintosh section on http://pygame.org/download.shtml "These are packages for the python from python.org,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] GASP on OSX 10.5.6

2009-06-29 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 29-Jun-09, at 7:06 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: Mac OS X apparently not a supported platform: https://answers.launchpad.net/gasp-code/+faq/42 It looks like the code is pure python and depends on pycairo, so in theory it should work provided cairo which has a Quartz backend) and pycairo work

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Installing Pygame

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Janssen
My two cents: Don't try to install a new Python on OS X. Just use /usr/bin/python. artha...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > I am using a Mac PPC with Tiger 10.4.11 and I recently downloaded and > installed Python 2.6.2. and I am having difficulties getting started. What are you trying to do, learn Pyth

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] GASP on OSX 10.5.6

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Daniel Sato wrote: > Hi, > > I am a complete python beginner.  I have been going through How to Think > Like A Computer Scientist 2nd edition online and have come across installing > GASP in chapter 4.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to find much documentation > on how

[Pythonmac-SIG] GASP on OSX 10.5.6

2009-06-29 Thread Daniel Sato
Hi, I am a complete python beginner. I have been going through How to Think Like A Computer Scientist 2nd edition online and have come across installing GASP in chapter 4. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find much documentation on how to install GASP when running OSX and Python 2.6.2. Any help w

[Pythonmac-SIG] Trying to use appscript need some help

2009-06-29 Thread Jan Erik Moström
I'm trying to learn how to use appscript but I don't understand what I'm missing. I want to read photo info from iPhoto and have things working ... partly The script looks like this from appscript import * selected = app('iPhoto').selection.get() for item in selected: print 'Width : ',

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Installing Pygame

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:14 PM, wrote: > Hi, > I am using a Mac PPC with Tiger 10.4.11 and I recently downloaded and > installed Python 2.6.2. and I am having difficulties getting started. > I purchased "Python Programming, 2nd Ed. for the absolute beginner" by > Michael Dawson because he uses ga

[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing Pygame

2009-06-29 Thread arthamax
I am using a Mac PPC with Tiger 10.4.11 and I recently downloaded and installed Python 2.6.2. and I am having difficulties getting started. I purchased "Python Programming, 2nd Ed. for the absolute beginner" by Michael Dawson because he uses games to teach programming and the book got great

[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing Pygame

2009-06-29 Thread arthamax
Hi, I am using a Mac PPC with Tiger 10.4.11 and I recently downloaded and installed Python 2.6.2. and I am having difficulties getting started. I purchased "Python Programming, 2nd Ed. for the absolute beginner" by Michael Dawson because he uses games to teach programming and the book got

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python program done, now need to Change Rocketship Icon, Remove Python menu?

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Janssen
Python Nutter wrote: > 1. I wish to override the Rocketship icon and display an icon > representing my Application. Put your icon in the Info.plist file of your application: CFBundleIconFile YourLogo.icns You can use /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Icon Composer to build the

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python program done, now need to Change Rocketship Icon, Remove Python menu?

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Walzer
Python Nutter wrote: What are some good resources to learn how to deploy on this platform? py2app is what you're looking for--it will wrap Python and your application code into a standalone application with its own icon. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com ___

[Pythonmac-SIG] Python program done, now need to Change Rocketship Icon, Remove Python menu?

2009-06-29 Thread Python Nutter
I've completed a GUI program in Python and used wxPython for a cross platform GUI solution. Now I need to focus on polishing up the Mac OS X distribution side of things. I've scanned my email program's archives of pythonmac-sig and I didn't get any results on a few first items I need to learn. T